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stoney
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Mum, bless her!
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Having read through some of the entires on a thread which brought up the names "Mr Donald Duck" and "Mr Michael Mouse" as real people, I got to thinking about people I've known who had "suitable" sounding names for their circumstances/occupations.
Here's a few of my old schoolteachers for instance:
Mrs Spicer - Domestic Science
Miss Patton - Needlework
Mr Benson (knicknamed "Bunsen") - Chemistry
Mary Stewart (Stuart) - History
Anyone else got some goodies?
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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Lydart
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Not quite what you mean ... but when I was in infants school (back in the time of Magna Carta or thereabouts) ... we had teachers called Miss Bonnet, Miss Button, and the head-mistress was Miss Boot !
Absolutely true ! (except the bit about Magna Carta)
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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skb
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How about
Miss Wailing - Music
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Byers (Salford & London) Stringfellow (Salford & Chorley) Holmes (Manchester & Birmingham) Goulding/Golden (Birmingham & Lincolnshire) Bassett (Manchester & Salford) Child (Lincolnshire) Belshaw (Salford) Hallsworth (Eccles & Salford) Vernon (Bury) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lydart
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Hiya CaveGirl ... welcome to Rootschat, if no-one else has already !
We're an odd lot, but very friendly and helpful ! Enjoy !
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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BettyofKent
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Ray & Frank
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I had a teacher with a name that didn't fit with her occupation (so not quite on topic but I can't resist  ) but memorable all the same - Mrs Piddle.
Betty
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Paul Caswell
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I had a maths teacher called Ena Evans, she signed her name E2.
Paul
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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury) Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Selattyn) Turner - Dorset(Parkstone) Speight - Essex(Braintree), Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal) Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle) Amey - Suffolk(Haverill) Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham) Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay) Census information is Crown Copyright
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millymcb
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Three Brothers Knight out on the road...almost!
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I had a dentist called Mr Garlick....ergh!
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McBride (Monaghan & Manchester), Derbyshire (Bollington,Cheshire), Knight (Newcastle,Staffs), Smith (Chorley, Lancashire & Ireland), Tipladay (Manchester & Yorkshire) ,Steadman (Madeley,Shropshire), Steele (Manchester & Glasgow), Parkinson (Wigan, Lancashire), Lovatt, Cornes & Turner (Staffordshire) Stott (Oldham, Lancs). All ended up in Ardwick, Manchester - in Cotton Mills, Iron Works, or running pubs and corner shops. Census informatio is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.g |
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pennine
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Hows about I. Ball - Optician?
At school we had a Miss Maybee, who was famous for saying 'I might and I might not' we used to call her 'Maybe she will and Maybe she won't' 
Pennine
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Bell, Brodsworth, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Bright, Eyre, Jessop, Wilkinson, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Fielding, Lound Retford, Lincolnshire and Sheffield, Yorkshire
Law, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Lister, Flockton, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Mitchell, Langsett, Nr. Penistone Yorkshire.
Walton, Cudworth, Barnsley Yorkshire.
Stanger, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.
Gratwick, London and Kent
Fahy, Limerick, Southern Ireland
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pennine
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Just remembered another- In Sheffield there was a firm of undertakers called J Fairest!
Pennine
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Bell, Brodsworth, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Bright, Eyre, Jessop, Wilkinson, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Fielding, Lound Retford, Lincolnshire and Sheffield, Yorkshire
Law, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Lister, Flockton, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
Mitchell, Langsett, Nr. Penistone Yorkshire.
Walton, Cudworth, Barnsley Yorkshire.
Stanger, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.
Gratwick, London and Kent
Fahy, Limerick, Southern Ireland
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Lemontree
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Hi
There is a firm of solicitors in leamington Spa
Write Hassles
Lemon
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stoney
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Mum, bless her!
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There's a garden maintenance firm around here called "Bodget, Stingem & Scarper"!
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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Lydart
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There used to be a local dentist named Mr Pullem ... and we have a Dr Payne in the surgery !
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