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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #27 on: Monday 04 October 10 07:08 BST (UK) »
In this months WDYTYA mag there is a baptism of a poor child parents were a miss Fish married to a Mr Fish who used the double name for their children ie .... Fish-Fish but they must have been totally out of it when they gave their son the first name Fish so poor child was Fish Fish Fish
bet he refused to eat his haddock
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #28 on: Monday 04 October 10 20:14 BST (UK) »
Pimp was (is?) a surname in Lincolnshire, which also gives the name Hussey
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #29 on: Monday 04 October 10 22:34 BST (UK) »
1. I also remember the estate agents Doolittle and Dalley, they had an office in Bridgnorth, Shropshire as I remember.
2. There was also a Dental Surgery in St Mary's  Street - the name on the plaque outside said @Philpott and Peade!
3. A friend of mine named Theresa married John Green.
PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #30 on: Monday 04 October 10 22:43 BST (UK) »
We've got a Fanny Breeds (how appropriate ;D) and a Fanny Clapp.

and a Minnie Hart (ok until she married....... to a Mr Willie C*ck  :-[)

and a fair few Freakes and Looneys
Jeacock
Colebourne
Shepherd
Scotter
Sievers
Knowles
Pritchard
Lilley
Hart/Hertz
Woodmansey
Monnington
Thomas (South Wales)
John (South Wales)
Pearce (South Wales)


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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #31 on: Monday 04 October 10 23:14 BST (UK) »
Juat remembered there are 2 villages in Worcestershire - Wyre Piddle, North Piddle, and I think also a Piddle in the Hole! Thanks everyone for all the laughs,
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PRICE Edward (c.1860)  Harry PRICE (1891) Frank PRICE (c.1897), Arthur PRICE (1884). Compton, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
GARFIELD, Edgbaston and Wolverhampton
JOHNSON, Wolverhampton and Bilston
ATKINS, Wolverhamptonand Bilston

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #32 on: Monday 04 October 10 23:51 BST (UK) »
I may have mentioned these earlier, but I have got a Fanny Fidler with her brother William (think about it)! :D

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Dowdell, Pressley, Snook, Read, Hurle, Small, Cannings .....  Wiltshire
Fitzgerald, Greenhill .... London
Thursfield, Newey, Berrisford, Wood, Hulme ..... Warwickshire/Staffordshire
Ditchfield, Unsworth, Clarke, Perrin, Orrett .... Cheshire/Lancs
Jones ..... N Wales

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 05 October 10 18:12 BST (UK) »
I once worked with a P.C. Green, think about it! possibly an infection in the water!
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #34 on: Thursday 07 October 10 13:29 BST (UK) »
Fanny Brain.  ;D
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #35 on: Thursday 07 October 10 19:03 BST (UK) »
i dont think some of these surnames are unfortunate its only when teamed with their first name they become so
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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