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When I search through the census returns I'm always on the lookout for names that might not be too appropriate today, so far I have been able to find the Stench family :(
There was also the Vile family and I've even found a family of Poose but I think the most unfortunate souls of all were the Minger family :-\ I kid you not!!
Has anyone found any other names that theyre glad they didnt marry into?
Seriously though,if you are a Stench,Vile,Poose or heaven forbid a Minger :-[ I'm not poking fun at you but you do have a rather unfortunate Surname :)
One final note,Whilst in a local parish church doing some research I happened to look in the visitors book and someone had written
"I'm visiting from Australia,my ancestors were the Vile family who lived locally although we have now changed our name to Vale"
Enough said :) Mick ;)
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Well, I still think poor Ellen Cooper got a bu* deal when she married Sidney Snoswell in 1851 ;D
Suey
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Why just the past? In a political campaign a few years ago two of the candidates had interesting names.
A pair of bumper stickers, one for each man, gave the interesting order "Obey Crooks".
Anna
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Its not just surnames what about the unfortunate first names Like Primrose Smith for a Man or Anguish Lake. Both who I have found in my studies.
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Longbottoms and Sidebottoms, we've all heard of those. I,m just glad i,m not researching them or the other one i saw this week....
" Can anyone help me, I'm looking for a Thickbottom in Lancashire" :-X
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How about Mary Gotabed she married my G-G-G grandfather.
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In the course of my research I came across PONGWELL, SMELLIE and CRAPP all in the same family group!,none of them related to me [thank heavens]
A friend of mine lives and works in Germany his surname is MIST, which causes much amusment for his German friends and neighbours. It is German for dung [for want of a better word].
There are some funny, rude, and vulgar surnames especially in the US, have a look at the 1880 US census.
Tom
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My Mum once had a neighbour called Rhoda Daley ........
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I think i've just found some Pratts in my family :)
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There was also the dashing Army officer with the rather unfortunate name of Lt Col.Drew Peacock :( (Say it fast!)
A single man,apparently ;D
Mick ;)
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I still love my Giggles :D
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I have a Doink on my tree. There's an umlaut somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
Anna
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I noticed a number of members of the SEX family while going through the parish records of Ibsley, Hants. A particular favorite name of mine from my own tree is Fanny Shuter (ping-pong ball anyone?) :o
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Fanny Shuter (ping-pong ball anyone?) :o
lol ;D ;D ;D ;D
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:o ;D
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My hubbies Gran new a girl by the name of Nora lamb
She married a guy by the name of Bone
dont know if she used norah lamb bone
or norah bone
bubs
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I was looking round Bosham church with some mates when we spied on a gravestone "Eliza Nutter." We weren't sure if it was a name or a statement?
Fred.
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Well Iv been researching my Woodcock family and way way back found siblings called Fanny and Willy Woodcock!!!
Sorry...it made me laugh!
Alison
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not just in the past either, there was a group of doctors here called Clap, Crap and Whistle. My ancestors are Onions or is that O'Nions like Sidebottom pronounced Sid-e- bottem ! Chris
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i know some O'Niens' and Sidebottoms....and i heard the other day of a family called Ness (im in Scotland) and they have two boys -they were signing up for a football club and they had to put their initials - one of the other mums noticed that they had written A Ness and P Ness!!!
What stupid parents - how can u call your kids that!
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worse then that our neighbours were called Case guess what they called their son Justin !!
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not just in the past either, there was a group of doctors here called Clap, Crap and Whistle. My ancestors are Onions or is that O'Nions like Sidebottom pronounced Sid-e- bottem ! Chris
Hi Chris,
You didn't happen to have a Louie Onion in your tree. She married (or maybe not) my GUncle Fred, whose name was really Edwin, Barton born around 1882 in Suffolk, only son of George Henry Barton and Mary Ann Peill.
Fred Barton's wife was always referred to as Louie Onion, by his family. There were no known children. Don't have any other dates, although she was certainly around in the early 1940's.
Thanks
Sandra
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Hi Sandra there was a Louisa (nee stanton) married Joseph Onions but mine all came from Walsall, it was only my Grandad Alfred Onions that came to live in Warrington. They still call ny mum Elsie Onions even after 60 years. Chris.
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Oh well, thanks just the same, Chris. Worth a shot. Onions is hardly 'Smith of the south' is it? The only reference I have, is a possible birth in Cheltenham, Sept Q 1896.
Does anyone 'know their onions'?? ::)
Sandra
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My son was at school with an Andrew Penness.
You can guess what they called him ;D
Also, my neighbour married a Pratt-she soon made him change it to Platt.
On my searches through 1837online I recently came across ;) a Fanny Flash.
Well it made me laugh ;D ;D ;D
I loved that Drew Peacock-Mick(still giggling about it)
Carol
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A friend assures me there was a boy in his class at school called
Richard Head.
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We had a guy at boarding school called P. Balls. Some wag pinned a fake notice on the games board with a made-up cricket team using real kids' names - it started "Duncan, Lickiss, Balls, "and so on and it took the teachers ages to figure out the subliminal message hidden within.
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Hi
There is a solicitors in Warwickshire named Write Hassel, it is still trading.
Whilst searching graves in North devon i have found a few B*rstards, apprently it is a french name.
Lemon
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Try this thread on a similar theme.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,88693.0.html
Not for the faint of heart.
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another one my daughter went to school with a boy named shaun dick
bubs
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Hi there
I went to school with a Richard Scratcher. So he was an R. Scratcher
However we all called him Dick ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I have a book at home which gives a short biography on past British admirals, & featured in this is a chap called Sir Cloudesley Shovell. He died on 21 October 1707 when his ship - the Association - was wrecked on the Scilly Islands.
Jayson
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I love names and write down the good ones I find.
My all-time favourite is Africa Bastard. You can find him in England in the 1881 census. He named his son after himself.
My second-favourite might be Spiro Borg. I also like Regent Stride and Lottie London.
Favourite surnames (not all "unfortunate"):
- Death
- Sheepwash
- Heyhoe
- Bodycomb
- Cocup
- Odd
- Old
- Friend
- Missing
- Mee
- Money
- Truelove
- Spendlove
- Sweetlove
- Unthank
- Redhead
- Spittle
- Honeyball
- Whitebread
- Lambkin
- Rollinback
- Perfect
- Blott
- Bedwell
- Squirrel
- Cheeseman
- Wraith
- Smoker
- Frisby
- Spearpoint
- Sweet
- Alltimes
- Fuggles
It's funny but I don't understand why some of the names in previous posts are "unfortunate". It must be a regional thing (I'm in Canada). For example, the words Minger and Poose mean nothing to me.
; )
Regards,
Josephine
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Dad had a story that the vicar here in the 30s was the Rev. Darling and his gardener was Mr. Deere so every morning when he went to school he heard "Morning Darling, " "Morning Deere" coming over the vicarage wall.
I think the names are correct although the story has been improved somewhat.
Fred
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Hi Suey, the poor Ellen Cooper was my 3xs grand mother and Sidney was my 3xs grandfather :'(
Alison
ps gald he had all daughters ;D
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I have a Cocker in my tree.
If she went to school these days, the bullies would have it easy.
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Then of course, (slight change of topic) there's that famous cricket commentary (can't remember who actually said it over the air-waves... )
"The batsman's Holding, the bowlers Willey"
(I wonder what the mods will do with that one !)
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Some friends of my parents had some friends called Curtin, they called their daughter Annette. :-\
have you not got poo in Canada Josephine? (poo's ;)) Minger probably is a brit thing, it means skanky (is that better?)
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It was the late Brian Johnston (Jonners) He said he'd waited ages to say that.
And of course he was still broadcasting when one of the commentary team said of someone who'd tripped over the wicket (I think) that he 'couldn't get his leg over' Complete collapse of the commentary team; they were almost crying with laughter.
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If you want to listen to it it's here (if you have real player or want to install it) voted best commentary by five live ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/sport/bestcommentary/
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In the current BT Directory for my area we have:
Orange-Bromehead
Sitch, R.
Both have been listed for a number of years.
I worked with a lady whose husband's initials were A. R. S.
And a "pre-decimilisation appropriate" name/initials of a cutomer I dealt with many years ago was L. S. D. Rich.
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While looking for some Burns, I found Fanny and Richard [Dick] in the same family!
Also a wedding notice, Bugg-Flye
around these parts we have a customer called Richard Soul, a plumber called Lee King, a dentist called Hertz and R. Swissall
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Found one yesterday on my wifes side of the family, Nellie Smellie, I'm still giggling 24hrs later, must be my school boy sense of humour
Simon
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My hubbies Gran new a girl by the name of Nora lamb
She married a guy by the name of Bone
dont know if she used norah lamb bone
or norah bone
bubs
really! was she having you on?
my nans nan so is she my g g nan was called Fanny Farmer!
not so unusual names but together create a classic.
actually i looked on the BMD the other day for a Daisy Chain but couldn't see one anywhere! (not for any reason was just putting in combinations)
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We had a teacher named Matterface....you can imagine the cruel fun kids had with that one!
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There used to be a Optician in Westcliff On Sea called Charles Wright, always brought a smile to my face
Simon
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I have an ancestor whose first names were FANNY DUFF.
Whilst searching for some of my HYDE rellie I came across these
LETTICE AGREE HYDE (perhaps neither parent liked the name chosen by the other so resorted to this one) and MOUNTABLE HYDE to name a couple.I should add that neither of these are my family.
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I have a book at home which gives a short biography on past British admirals, & featured in this is a chap called Sir Cloudesley Shovell. He died on 21 October 1707 when his ship - the Association - was wrecked on the Scilly Islands.
Jayson
There's an exhibition about him at the Medway Archives at this very moment - a great admiral.... and a Norfolk Shovell.
Carole
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Kesannah, just love the name MOUNTABLE.
I remember someone with a Beverley Hills in their tree, another lot of parents with a sense of humour
Simon
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In the area I lived there was a Dentist called Payne who called his house Toothacre !!!!!!!!!
Sorry if this is a repeat I haven't read all the replies.
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I have just found a Dora Keys while searching for Keys in the IGI.
I once had a mixed doubles tennis partner called Annette Player [her first husband was a Fisher!]
An old school friend recently wanted me to look if there were any traces of his father's family in Poland [his father stayed in England after WW2.] His surname was Hartz, but he confessed that his father's surname was originally Fartz, and his mother had insisted on a name change, before she married. Wise choice.
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think l can beet you all ive just found a Fanny Clapp and a brother called Curry Clapp
Amour
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I have got Onions in my tree as well
(Just reread that - and theres me thinking they grew in the ground!)
Theres my Great Aunt Laura Bowkett who married a William Uren
Then theres poor Ida Minnie Fanny Knott who must have been glad to marry Joseph Symonds. Fanny Lamb who married Henry Mumford
Also Whynot Merrill, Sarah Pigg, Mary Puddle, Fanny Tanner, Willie Wackett and Nance Nutting
Willow x
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Hi Willow, where do your Onions come from ? mine are from Walsall. We had a doctor here in SA called Clap his partners were Crap and Whistle.
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Here's one I found on on Familysearch.org there is a
Agnes Shitts b 1823 Ohio.i hate to think what they named their kids .. ??? :o ;D
Mike
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Looking for a marriage I found a Fanny Pantry as one of the possible brides, but sadly she turned not to be my relative's wife. I've also seen the name Fanny Finger.
;D
Betty
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Hiya Organicgardener
Mine are all born in Wolverhampton starting off with an Edward who married a Maria Hilton my GGGG aunt
If you think there might be a connection PM me
Willow x
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I have a friend who I introduced to genealogy, she's hooked now :D
When we started on her tree I asked what her maiden name was?
It was Smellie ;)
Then I asked what her mother's maiden name was?
It was Dickey :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D
Even she can see the funny side.
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When I did my nurse training many many years ago, on a care of the elderly ward two patients, in beds next to each other were
Lavender Bunting and Violet Dick.
Colour Match anyone?
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I have an Ancestor called Innocent Body - bad enough for a women but he was a chap.
Jacky
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Simon, I have a Beverly Hills in my family. Funny thing is she moved to Callifornia.
Lynn H.
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I was transcribing some probates a few days ago when I come across a
George Bogg. Not so bad until I read his address.
Poor ol' Mr Bogg lived in Drain Side! (I'm not kidding) :P
Now that really is an unfortunate name and domicile to go with it.
Bron
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If you enjoyed this thread you`ll love this book Potty, Fartwell & Knob by Russell Ash. It`s a hilarious collection of unusual names taken from census and Parish Records, go on, treat yourself, available from Amazon ;D ;D ;D
Sue
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I've come across a Fanny Hitch :D
But I am still trying to find the Day family with their son Zipperdeedodah ! ;D
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;D ;D ;D
Sue
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Blimey
I cannot stop laughing!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
sara
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HI! There was a lady in Florida who had twins and named them "Pepsi Cola" and Coca Cola.!" I kid you not! ;D Pat
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i went to school with a lad called A. Dick
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I used to work with a girl called Comfort Plenty :)
I also knew a Wanda Kiss at school. She was not amused by her parents choice of name. She married into the Hills family....Hmmmmm...... Wanda Hills ???
mab
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what alovely name comfort plenty - ideal for nurse -shame we have such naughty minds
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She was our receptionist at the time and had her name plaque on her desk. She used to get a laugh at people's reaction to her name.
mab
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My great great grandfather married a FannyTufft. :D Ater their marriage she was Fanny Belcher ;D
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One of my great aunt's maiden name was Rose Trollope. Her mother's maiden name was Julia Lusty. I am told she was a very popular barmaid.
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I do not think she was old when she married in 1823, but my gr gr grandmother's maiden name was Ann Teakle!
Chas
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Whilst working at my local council, I was given the task of transcribing details from the local Cemeteries’ burial records onto computer. At that time we had a YT working with us, and he was helping out. These registers were pre-1900. One day he erupted into laughter – verging on the hysterical and it took a while for him to calm down. Even then he still couldn’t say what the ‘problem’ was, but eventually he managed to point to a name in the book – Fanny Blowers.
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I've found someone in the 1750's who I suspect may be loosely related (note I say loosely) ... and she appears to have been the village good time girl, with several 'base-born's' to her name; twenty years later I see one of her daughters is following the same trend, with a 'base-born' ! At that point I skimmed over things a little, until I found descendents of theirs in the late 19th C, with the surname Hoare !
They are only very loosely linked !
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I have recently discovered I have a Whalley in my tree
I guess names come in and out of fashion
Whalley probably had no second adverse meaning pre 1970 ?
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Hands up here ! My 3G grandmother was Eliza Cund. Well there aren't a lot of them around now are there?
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Forgot to say she had the sense to become Mrs John Smith!
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A quite common name nowadays around where I live is Wanklyn. Don't think I'd fancy it myself :-\ :-\ :-\
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Saxon ... I see you also have a Cock on your list !
Mine had the sense to turn into Cox !
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Yes but I'm pleased to say Cund is mine and Cock is my my other half!
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Well, I might as well put my two penn'orth in...
I have a Great Grandmother by the name of Fanny Bint...(God bless her :o :D ;D).
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Gosh ... you've been a member for over a year ... get posting, girl ... we all are eagerly waiting to be helpful !
Glad you've joined us ... and welcome to the best genealogy site there is ... and its FREE !
And as you say, God bless Great Granny Fanny Bint !
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In the Wolverhampton registers, there are a lot of Dafts and Thickbrooms!
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Hi All
Hee Hee ;D ;D ;D
1891 Surrey......
Fanny A Whiffin
Sarah :)
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I have a S H I T
For obvious reasons ,I have given up on that line...so if anyone finds any, please let me know.
Steve ;D
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Steve,
they are obviously NOT the Scotish Branch as they've dropped the E :D
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Mercy (Fish) Butts is the one in my tree that always makes me giggle!
I've been transcribing some California coroners' records and one really caught my eye. There is a box for place of birth and for a physical description. One woman's entry read "California Blonde"
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;D ;D ;D
mab
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My Great Grandmother was a Sidebottom. Apparently someone we know changed theirs to siddybotham with the pronunciation
How about a client we had in the bank I worked at the time Ruby Fanny Cramp?
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Minnie ... I hope she's not a member of RC and/or still alive ... confidentiality and all that ?
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This lady was quite elderly back in the 60's so No dont think so. I sure had some laughs at other's expense ::).
When these names were brought into being people didnt have the education and media that we have.
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Hi all
I'm jealous, no really I am, I can't find any one with a name like any on here in my tree, gutted I am :P :P :P :P :P
Sharmar
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Well I did have a Friggle (don't look it up in a dictionary ! ... now I know you will ...) until a fellow RootsChatter pointed out to me that it was a mistranscription of Triggle !
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Well I did have a Friggle (don't look it up in a dictionary ! ... now I know you will ...) until a fellow RootsChatter pointed out to me that it was a mistranscription of Triggle !
Wasn't in my dictionary so I googled ;D
Willow x
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The late Diana Dors real name was Diana Fluck. :)
In the 1990's in my last job I had occasion to speak to a chap from the Swindon area who had the same surname and when I mentioned that it was Diana Dors real name it turned out she was a distant cousin of whom the family were very proud of.
Jean
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Just came across a couple of new ones for me.
James Wildgoose :-\
Catherine Willgas. ???
Oh Dear.
Barb
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LANGUAGE WARNING!!!
While researching the 1841/51 censuses on Ancestry, I found a whole family named COCKHEAD on the same page as one of my ancestors. Glad I'm not them!
However, I do have the surname CHESSON in my family. Not sure what it means, but I understand that it is very derogatory in French!
And I have a marriage way back between Mr GROSE and Ms COCK - that doesn't look good when put together on my chart!
(gosh, this is a fairly inauspicious first post on RootsChat)
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Kill, Death, Emo
and a Phatuel Granger
:D
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(gosh, this is a fairly inauspicious first post on RootsChat)
Welcome to Rootschat nudge 67 ;D
mab
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Hi Nudge 67!
Welcome to Rootschat! Hope you have fun!
Judy ;)
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Hello Nudge !
Welcome from me too. At least you've started off well on here with the Lighter Side ... try the more serious threads too ...
Hope we can be useful to you.
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Earwaker
(I think my sister has some of this blood in her (don't tell her I said that!)) :D
Hello Nudge
Enjoy the mysteries of rootschat....
I haven't been here long either
Claire
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Looking in my rellies patch found these (not mine)
Dorcy Parkin
Love Parken who married Charles Horsfall
Nans Swanson (hope it wasnt her swansong when she married)
Barb
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Not the surname but the child's first name makes you wonder what his Mom's been up to! :o :o :o
I was looking for someone elsewhere on the page when I noticed the Jones family's 4 year old
Piece RG10:3030:F112:P17
and just to be sure it wasn't a mistake, he's on FREEBMD too but spelt FELANDER.
Poor soul! I wonder how he tuned out ::)
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I found a village on the IGI site today searching in the family.
I doubt it still exists but back in 1800 it did
Wet Wang with Fimber in Yorkshire. Wonder what it actually was named for.
Barb
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Yes, it still exists, spelt Wetwang.
Slang words usually change quite quickly. Our ancestors would probably wonder why we were laughing, and as they couldn't read, it was only how the name was said that mattered, not how it looked.
I did know someone called D. Day (but that person was born before 1944!)
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One lot of OH ancestors come from Whitton Cum Twambrooks, Cheshire ;D
Think it just called Whitton now
Willow x
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Hi all
My questions is, 'What names now would make our ancestors laugh?'
:) :) :) :) ;D ;D :) :) :)
Sharmar
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Paris Hilton? ;D
meles
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I came across this name by accident. Wish I had bothered to figure out what her maiden name was.
Wealthy Crapser b. 1810 d. 1883
dollylee
oops .. just looked her up again in a cemetery list...that was her maiden name her married name was Wealthy Le Roy. No fun in that name :o(
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I've not got any unusual names in my tree, but did you know that there is a village/small
town in Yorkshire called ' Land of Nod '?
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I've not got any unusual names in my tree, but did you know that there is a village/small
town in Yorkshire called ' Land of Nod '?
Thats where i should be at 2.00am when I'm still chatting on here lol :D
I found a Rose Moss on OH tree yesterday (Ha just read that through - does it need weed killer?)
Willow x
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I see Brambletye finds the name Bumstead funny - I don't understand that at all !!!
Steve Bumstead
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...my apologies... :-[ !
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Just joking !!!
I'm immune after all these years - in fact I quite enjoy embarrassing people with it. But my son changed his name - confounding his descendants - & I believe my grandfather used a false name for years when courting my grandmother.
Unfortunately my son changed his name to my wife's maiden name - which causes even more embarrasment as people think his parents aren't married (not that it seems much of an issue these days!)
Steve
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I have a rellie called Philadelphia Reed. Philadelphia! What a fantastic name
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Just joking !!!
I'm immune after all these years - in fact I quite enjoy embarrassing people with it.
Steve
I'll bet you had a bit of fun with it at work - watching your underlings struggling with the choice between sniggering or keeping their jobs... ;D
I couldn't manage to suppress a grin when I saw that you call yourself "Old Bristolian" - I once had an uncle who used this term to refer to the barmaid in his favourite pub, whose visible means of support was an extremely skimpy garment.
Being a child at the time, I didn't understand it until much later - and at the time, nor why it was my mother used to rebuke him for saying it in front of me... ;D ;D
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Unfortunately my son changed his name to my wife's maiden name -
Steve
Not to your Fook, I hope!!!
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If you google you can find a town in Austria called F.....ing. Yep thats right. Lots of Brits go there and pinch the town signs.
Barb
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Unfortunately my son changed his name to my wife's maiden name -
Steve
Not to your Fook, I hope!!!
No, thank goodness - it was MacDonald!
Steve
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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another one my daughter went to school with a boy named shaun dick
bubs
I went to School with a Shaun Dick too - haha - :-X
I have recently discovered I have a Whalley in my tree
I have Whalleys in my tree, starting with my GGrandmother - :-X
And Living a few doors down from one of my family in a census - a Fanny Facker. Oh dear - too close.
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There is the surname Willey too, as in the cricketer, Peter Willey.
This led to the wonderful Brian Johnstone, commentating on a test between England and the Windies, describing the positions of Willey and Michael Holding as -
The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey.
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:o :o :o
;D
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I once knew a very attractive young lady whose parents had saddled her with the initials VD!
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Ooh, you've got to be careful with initials. My wife, as an engineering student was horrified to discover that her maiden initials NVH was an acronym for Noise, Vibration & Harshness.
BTW, she claims she married me for my surname (Edwards). But my recently married sister is already getting sick of explaining her new much more complicated surname!
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I have recently found a distantly related family called Fidler. A large family which includes a Fanny and a William! ::)
Helen
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I visited a farm a couple of years ago and the owners name was Strange, now that in itself is strange but I'm sure his parents weren't thinking when they gave him his christian names - first name frank, not sure on his second name but the entrance to the farm had the grand title of "F N Strange" Could you imagine some officious person asking if he was f___n strange?
Denn
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came across one name while looking for relatives out in USA ,one married a a Mr W--k !!!!!! ;D,work it out for yourself ,one of their children was called Willie , where do these surnames come from ???
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;D ;D
I found one yesterday that goes beyond naughty.
I don't think I dare post it on a family site :o ;D
Betty
came across one name while looking for relatives out in USA ,one married a a Mr W--k !!!!!! ;D,work it out for yourself ,one of their children was called Willie , where do these surnames come from ???
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How would you like to be married to a Pollock?
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I once knew a very attractive young lady whose parents had saddled her with the initials VD!
I wanted to call one of my daughters Victoria but could not saddle her with those initials....our surname starts with D..
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1794 Baptism in Worth Matravers, Dorset.
9 Mar Elizabeth Sexy daughter of Mary Mast :o
http://www.rootschat.com/links/02xx/
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I've not got any unusual names in my tree, but did you know that there is a village/small
town in Yorkshire called ' Land of Nod '?
. . . and in Norfolk there's two villages: 'Little Snoring' and 'Great Snoring' - zzzzzz! 8)
John
PS I used to know a school- teacher who's surname was Barsted.
And I know a Mrs Bedwell.
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Just found a male -
"Newyear Maude" (Maude is last name)....must have been a new year starting off with a bang.!
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Elizabeth Pinches
Ouch :-X
mab
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One of the nice things about living in North America is that no one thinks our surname - Ramsbottom - is odd or funny, in fact many people here comment on "your nice English surname"
Carolyn
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So what's wrong with 'Cock' as a surname? It's my maiden name! My poor Dad was saddled with the first name William, but he changed it when he joined the army. I wonder why?!!
SamiW
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My surname is Nobbs, and I'm quite happy with it, my wife was brave enough to take it on. She comes from Sligo in Ireland, where the local solicitors are called. Argue & Fibbs. That figures.
Howard
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My great-aunt would have done well to follow the maxim and 'think ahead', in that way she may not have had to live her life as Mrs. Fanny Shooter.
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Some years ago there was (and possibly still is) a firm of estate agents in Gloucestershire called Doolittle & Dalley....wonder whether the housing market is particularly sluggish in that part of the country? And there is a solicitor in Nottingham by the name of C Rupert Bear (now there's a set of parents with imagination: at least they gave him the option of using his first name instead!) But a former colleague of mine swears she once taught a Thomas Catt and a Theresa Green.
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Welcome to RC meryll ;D
Mab
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WELCOME Meryll :)
Wondered if I should really post this as is of the past (mine) but 'living'
Workmate some years back with the surname Orange named his son Justin
Often wonder how confident he is introducing himself or if he uses a '2nd' name instead
(I'll leave out all the puns ;D )
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A friend from school Mr Hare married Miss Fox ;D
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My 8g grandfather was called Holiday Hickinbottom - and his son, my 7g grandfather, was Amor Hickinbottom.
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You need to be very careful about some of these old names. I had an American correspondent who some years ago was making great fun out of one of our common ancestors called "Bunbinge". I gather this is a litle ruder over there than we would expect.
However when I eventually found the original will I found this was a complete misinterpretationof the early handwritng and the name was actually "Bunting"
David
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My great-aunt would have done well to follow the maxim and 'think ahead', in that way she may not have had to live her life as Mrs. Fanny Shooter.
Sounds like my G G G grandmother who was a Fanny Hooker!
Sarndra
www.sarndra.com
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How about the anthropologist Lionel Tiger?
nick
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Found one today for a sailor called Pratt percy Eves
hows that for a name who calls there baby Pratt but there again :D
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Whilst waiting at Gatwick airport for my flight there was a call put out on the loudspeaker for a Mr. Hugh Janus to report to check in, all eyes turned to see who answered the call. ::)
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I suspect that was a spoof call ... I've known students put out a message for Mr O. bin Larden before now !
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Yes your probably right, we did have our suspicions at the time although it did tend to ease the tension after a three hour wait.
Billkent.
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- Death
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Regards,
Josephine
ive just found recently i have a sheepwash !!
and i was one seen by a doctor D'ead :o
makes u feel abit uneasy ill say !prounouced it dee add
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Hi Jo New,
There's a village named Sheepwash in North Devon, possibly your relations came from that area originally.
Billkent.
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Well this isn't an example of the past, but just in the past couple of months i had to do a refund for a person and their name was Helen Back (Hell and back) LOL
Sarndra
www.sarndra.com
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Many years ago, I used to visit an Optician in Westcliffe On Sea called Mr C Wright, used to give me the giggles everytime I went
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In looking for my missing Carr's I found Henry Bunyon Carr. As yet I can't lay clai to him, poor bloke!
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I came across a Miss Potter who was a Potter & A Mr Hendon who came from Hendon, & I know someone called Cross & called their child Chris, you have to smile when you hear these names.
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Hi all
Here's a one in a million combination.
During the war, my father and his mates worked as a team at Hawker's, building fighter planes. Their names were as follows:
George Nobbs, Jack Lock, Frank Bolt, Harry Hinge.
Don't you a-door it.
Howard
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Hi all
Here's a one in a million combination.
During the war, my father and his mates worked as a team at Hawker's, building fighter planes. Their names were as follows:
George Nobbs, Jack Lock, Frank Bolt, Harry Hinge.
Don't you a-door it.
Howard
Reminds me of the staff that were working in a department at Canterbury University (Christchurch, NZ) when i was doing my degree in 2001:
FUDGE; ORANGE and one other food group that slips my memory at the moment...was hilarious
Sarndra
www.sarndra.com
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Hi everybody. Its my first time.
While at school .......years ago my friend was a Littlewood who later married a Smallwood. Her sister married a Forrest so at least one of them went up in the world. Also in my year at school was an Allcock (pronounced aycock) a Woodcock and a Bentcock. And on the cuter side... a Sally Sparrow
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One of the best chrisitian names I found was Defiance...
I have also come accross the middle name Scone..... The next entry had a middle name of Victoria... I sniffed a bakery nearby! lol
Chrissi
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There is a book devoted to funny and strange names on the census. its called
POTTY, FARTWELL & KNOB
kev
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That's going on my next order from Amazon ;D
It gives some sample pages, they are well worth looking at.
Imagine being called Pleasant Titty ;D ;D
Betty
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I have a 5x great aunt called Agnes Bogie.
Could be worse, could have been double-barrelled: Bogie-Green, etc.
Another name that comes to mind is a lady in my tree called Margaret Smellie. And in all honesty, she had no children and never married!
Interesting, eh?
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Hi Reabo M, I think I was at school with her sister Nellie!!........On second thoughts I think I've got the names the wrong way round. ::)
Bill
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Lol, nice one! Love it!
Poor souls, imagine the registrars face when her birth was registered. There must have been some names coming through where the poor boy must have chuckled!!
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I've just had a day in the Manchester Record Office looking up deaths !
Whilst browsing through thousands of names looking for the one I wanted, I noticed a Fanny Bott, and worse still, a Sarah Sh*tt !!
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Hi Lydart, Bet they couldn't wait to get married.
Bill.
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Lol made me chuckle!
Someone's parents had a sense of humour!
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I had a school friend whos surname was Baker, she had some remarks about that and was always keen to get married and change her name. She met and married a Mr Butcher. ???
I also had a school friend whos name was Winterbottom, my uncle called him Summerbum.
Leonie.
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Had a customer recently (I own a furniture & flooring store) who went to great lengths with the staff to point out that the 'ck' in her exquisitely painful surname of 'Cockburn' was silent.
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My Oh has an Eleanor Shufflebottom in his tree brn 1835 and married John Abraham brn 1816. She was from Liverpool bet she was glad to marry ( I know i would ). Not come across to many that stand out as yet. Lynette
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one of the Hadlands (not a bad name in itself) in my tree was unfortunate enough to work in real estate with that name. She claimed she only married her husband for his much more pedestrian surname.
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Had a customer recently (I own a furniture & flooring store) who went to great lengths with the staff to point out that the 'ck' in her exquisitely painful surname of 'Cockburn' was silent.
Her first name wasn't Hyacinth was it? ;D
Willow x
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Oh dear.... how sad am I?
1841 and some of the Fanny's in Middlesex gave me more than a chuckle....
These sound like they need immediate medical attention!
Fanny Burns, Fanny Clapp, Fanny Cramp, Fanny Hert, Fanny Gore,
Fanny Hyman, Fanny Crabb, Fanny Crawley Fanny Leach
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My family's from Middlesex but I personally hav'nt come across a Fanny Nobbs. Shame!
Howard Nobbs.
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I've had another customer this week whose name we've all been struggling with - a Mrs Glasscock
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You do have some interesting customers lol
Willow x
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I once spent many, many, hours trawling through all the "Mc and Mac D.....'s" in a birth index. I didn't find any of my "rellies" ! The frustration and boredom was immense !
At the point of near insanity though, I happened upon the delightfully-named
" Farquhar Arsethorpe"
Poor little blighter ::) Sadly, he wasn't one of my lot. Ah .... but what a "reward" for all those long hours of searching !
Lu
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I've had another customer this week whose name we've all been struggling with - a Mrs Glasscock
I wonder if she was connected to a Fanny Glasscock on the 1841 census.
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Check this one out
Fanny Slack, born 1890 in WOMBWELL :o
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Are you sure that isn't just an old telegram you've discovered? people often sent them after a happy event. ::)
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lol... No, she is real, I found her birth entry.
but it does sound like it should be a funny joke
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Recently found out that a friend who is a Mr Monk married a Miss Nunn!!!!
Didn't think that was aloud!!!!
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... Mr WRATT married Miss BATE.
She always bragged, "he was a really good catch" ! :)
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I had a mate at school once called Bates.
Always amused me to think of what his letters said:
Mr Master Bates.
Never ceases to amuse me!
Over and out :D
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Reaybo M :o
(Seriously, that's gorgeous) ! :)
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Looking through the GRO death index recently I came across a little mite who had died before his first birthday. I presume the embarrassment of carrying his Christian name of Oliphant had made him give up the ghost.
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As well as a Gordon Bennett,there was a boy at my school called Phillip Nissen.
The whole school erupted into laughter when the headmaster read out in assembly one day " and after assembly I would like to see P.Nissen in my room" :o :o :o
Say it out loud to yourself. ;D
My cousin married a Cockburn ( Co'burn) her kids have terrible trouble with the name. :P
Carol
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lol.... this is a fun thread!
back to Oliphant, there was definatley a nellie... Can you imagine all the singing in this day and age if that was your name b? I can hear it ............ nellie the oliphant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus....
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My Grand Aunt, Jenny Gaunt, married Willie Bottom! ;D
They changed their name to Bottomley once they had children!!
Jill
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;D ;D ;D lol ;D ;D ;D
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Recently found out that a friend who is a Mr Monk married a Miss Nunn!!!!
Didn't think that was aloud!!!!
Sharmar, it's a small world, looking at where you're researching, I would guess we have friends in common. If they happen to be from Newport, I know her family well.
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When circumstances bring two names together.
One of the funniest and much publicised quotes ever, was when the famous sports broadcaster Brian Johnston was commentating on an England/West Indies, cricket match.
He described the action taking place, ensuring the listener was aware of who was who, with the following statement.
"The bowlers Holding, the batsman's Willey"
He couldn't stop laughing when he realised what he had said and the world laughed with him.
It's well quoted now but I still chuckle every time I think of it. As much because of Brian's laughter as the quote itself.
Howard
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What a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have just read all the posts here, pointing them out to the other half. Killing myself laughing ;D ;D ;D
Keep them coming....
Pat
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'Caroline Peasfood' sounds more like an accusation than a name!!! ;D
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;D ;D ;D George Benjamin Tit born Mar 1864
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1891 Mary A Shagger :o :o :o
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Poor 'Willie Little' 1841 scotland ;D
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I have an ancestor who was Fanny Jeacocke
she married a Walter Wackett and became Fanny Wackett :o
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The surname PIMP appears several times in 19th century Lincolnshire censuses.
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My dear gran, thinking about names one day, announced "when I was a girl there were a lot of Fannys about!"
Bless her, she couldn't understand why it was so amusing!
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My dear gran, thinking about names one day, announced "when I was a girl there were a lot of Fannys about!"
Bless her, she couldn't understand why it was so amusing!
Is there any family tree that does not have a Fanny? ;D I have more than one and just yesterday found another! So yes a very popular name.
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Most unfortunate surname I have found is Higginbottom
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Poor 'Willie Little' 1841 scotland ;D
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Queen Victoria always referred to her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm as Little Willy!
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Not a surname, and not a direct ancestor but I have a Spark Adams from a census. Can't find a birth under that name, but he's listed as such on the 1911 census.