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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #261 on: Friday 10 June 16 18:05 BST (UK) »
Yes I'm quite sure I have a few hundred of those names too funnily enough ;D ;D

.... and who in the right mind would give their children names like 'Who Done It' , 'Horse' and 'Such Ann'

It's a crazy world we live in  ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #262 on: Friday 10 June 16 18:23 BST (UK) »
People do give those names, though.  Kenesaw Mountain Landis, for example.  And I personally was acquainted with a kid named Illinois Central ******* whose father presumably worked on the railroad.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #263 on: Friday 10 June 16 19:05 BST (UK) »

I do have to say Americans certainly seem a little more adventurous with names than over here in the UK.

Kenesaw M L actually rolls of the tongue quite nicely :)

It's just the thought of walking down a busy street and someone shouting "Hey! Who Done It , how are you "
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #264 on: Friday 10 June 16 19:15 BST (UK) »
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #265 on: Friday 10 June 16 19:53 BST (UK) »
That's brilliant  :D I hope everyone reads through that link. I love the name 'Silence'

There was a lady in Wales earlier this year who was took to court by Social Services for wanting to name her daughter Cyanide and her son Preacher. Needless to say the judge backed up Social Services, the lady lost her children because she had a history of drug abuse and mental illness.

Meanwhile in France ... A French court have stopped a couple from naming their daughter Nutella claiming she would be a target of derision.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #266 on: Friday 10 June 16 21:58 BST (UK) »
A group from Blackfoot Indian Reservation, Teton, Montana in 1900 - "Wonder Bull" - "Hits One Another" - "Almost Killed" and "Spotted Head"..............................

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSTZ-12D

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #267 on: Friday 10 June 16 23:26 BST (UK) »
There is that theory on how the Amerindian fathers named their children after the first thing they saw on being told of the birth.
Wait, no maybe that's the start of a joke....  ;) ;D
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #268 on: Friday 10 June 16 23:53 BST (UK) »

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #269 on: Saturday 11 June 16 12:46 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Erato on Friday 10 June 16 19:15 BST (UK)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/13/puritan_names_lists_of_bizarre_religious_nomenclature_used_by_puritans.html

"If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. Praise-God's son, he made a name for himself as an economist. But, for some inexplicable reason, he decided to go by the name Nicolas Barbon."
I choked laughing.

Some of the ones on that list... Oh dear. It does make you wonder what they were referred to in everyday life though.
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