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My favourite find of the last few days is a Fanny Booty.
I've also discovered the surname Shitter :o ;D
Betty
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oh dear.... poor lady - Fanny Wiffs 1881 ;D :o ;D
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Willie Handler :o hope he washes his hands often!
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Mmm ... school assemblies ... you always knew that the lads who got their names read out rather gruffly by the headmaster, were due for a few lashes of the cane !
But even the headmaster collapsed in gales of laughter on one occasion when ordering that ...
"Willing and Eagar report immediately after assembly, to his office". :D
[true story :) ]
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LOL ;D Justin Case... ;D
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You have to feel sorry for 'Hard Time' on the slave register
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Last funnies from me tonight - William Bum 1861 and Bettie Bummer Scotland 1841
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I watched 'The IT Crowd' last night, where much consternation was caused by a character named 'Peter File'.
I looked on FreeBMD, to see if such a name could really be found ~ and, sure enough, there is one!
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one for "bobby" COCKSEDGE
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I have Cockshoot's Cockshott's & Cockshaw's in my tree and I saw the name of Fanny Hunter Sampson during my research and knowing my lot, wondered if this was a name or a description
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I saw the name of Fanny Hunter Sampson during my research and knowing my lot, wondered if this was a name or a description
LMAO ;D
Willow X
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i found Miss Fanny Bottoms the other week in a census record
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;D I've just found a Mary Hairy (1861 Yorkshire)
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WOW! Love it!
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Mary A Piddler (well it made me laugh) ;D
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A Kent marriage in 1793:
Stephen PRICK and Sarah BAWLS
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This young Thomas went on to have good future, most of you ( well the blokes more so ) :) :) will use his name every day
Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2349; Folio: 303; Page: 19;
Pete :)
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It would have been even more odd had they lived in Hanger Lane. ::)
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I have Martha INCEST in my family tree.
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How did she climb up there?? ???
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hysterical!! we were complaining that our surnames were just too polular; things could be worse.
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I'm sure i posted these on another thread somewhere.
on FBMD marriages 1853 a Nappy Farty (bet she was pleased to be getting wed)
also loads of William Quarterly's (quarterly bill)
my dad also used to tell me when he was young there was a sign on a shop that always made him laugh when he saw it (me too)
'Woodcocks For Dolls'
Steve
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i came across fanny panting
neil
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i came across fanny panting
You naughty boy.
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hi sloe gin i like the boy bit lol
neil
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Fanny Burns.
Ouch. :o
Mrs. T.
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Not so much in the past but our local doctors were Crap, Clap and Whistle didn't go to them myself !!
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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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Pimp was (is?) a surname in Lincolnshire, which also gives the name Hussey
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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.
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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
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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,
giraffe
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I may have mentioned these earlier, but I have got a Fanny Fidler with her brother William (think about it)! :D
Helen
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I once worked with a P.C. Green, think about it! possibly an infection in the water!
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Fanny Brain. ;D
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i dont think some of these surnames are unfortunate its only when teamed with their first name they become so
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well Mum was a Pratt some of her brothers took their wive's names to bypass it but it simple meant cunning or clever so what is wrong with being a Pratt ???
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James Turd married Mary Dibble at Farnham, Surrey on 11th May 1769 :)
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Census (various)
German Bacon
Jackie
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This is a very funny thread...
I have found while looking for my relatives: Royal Albert Johnson and also a Fanny Beard!
In my hubby's tree there's a Minnie Oxley (and Minnie was the name she was christened with).
My brother's girlfriend has a marriage between a COOK and a BLOW - Cook 'n' Blow, sounds like something from JML! lol
At work we had rather a lot of customers with amusing names - I can't post as they are all still living. But it inspired a few of us to come up with our alter-egos! I became Elvira Magenta-Foghorn and one of the lads became Tarquinn Fenderbolt! We also went through a phase of using the phonetic alphabet. I was Lima Juliet and we had a scottish chap who liked a drink or two, and using his initials he became Whiskey Hotel! lol
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oh er my grandfather was Albert johnson but he wasn't Royal :'( I always thought Albert Johnson Quay in Portsmouth was names after him.... some hope fame we don't do
Trees
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Good thread, i have a "Halfhead" back in the early 1800's from Llangym, cheers
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Many of these old surnames have died out, either through too many females being born, or through disuse and change in an era which though it considers itself more open is at least as prudish as the Victorians.
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i can add a spring winkle to your list he became a publican !!!!! ;D , also seen a christmas day and a rose water
trevor
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just doodling around and found this section on roots chat ,it made me chuckle.
Having a keen interest in surnames as ya do I often look at wedding announcements to see if any of the names could be a link with mine , and to see if the bride as changed her surname for better or worse. ;D
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I know of a Terry Towle because his mother though it sounded right!
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I have myself inadvertently invited a schoolmaster to visit the toilet when answering a name call at school - I had a twin brother so had to add my initial. I'm just glad that my initial wasn't 'L'! Also while at school we had a few lads join us in the sixth form and there was no doubting the masculinity of John Thomas and Ivor Dick......' ;D', .
Phil
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So many funny names ;D
Without getting myself into deep water like a certain T.V personality. There is a Indian M.P who's last name is Dicshit, and yes it is said the way it looks.
I think we all got teased with our names as children, my mother's maiden name was Tew, she ended up being called chewing gum, chew chew train, but still I would prefer that over Dicshit any day.
Suzy W
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found another one that made me giggle
"Willie Fartwell"
until I realised it had been mistranscribed and it was Hartwell...
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Many of these old surnames have died out, either through too many females being born, or through disuse and change in an era which though it considers itself more open is at least as prudish as the Victgorians.
i agree !
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A deceased former colleague of mine gloried in the name of Richard (Dick) Willey. He referred to himself as Richard everyone else called him Dick. The two most unfortunate surnames I have come across both from the 19th century are Pimp, and Whoreson!
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The Pine Coffins were owner of a large area of lamd in North Devon
one of the ancestors kept the Coffin Arms which is probably the strangest pub name on my list of over 70 pubs!
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found a Nora Knocker... :)
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One of the names i come across whilst researching was Crotchrode Whiffing ???
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Presumably his friends (if any) all wore clothes pegs?
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Not of the past but the present - a listener phoning in to Radio 2 yesterday had the surname Lovelady. Today Simon Mayo had Nick Barrett on his programme to talk about surnames, and Lovelady was mentioned. Nick made it worse by suggesting that the poor man's ancestor had been a philanderer!
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In the male gender that is the origin of the surname Luffman from Anglo Saxon Leofman - man of love. By the 13th century in Geoffrey Chaucer the name had just such connotations.
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Have laughed my socks off reading this thread.
I dont have a funny ancestor as such but my grandfather was welsh. In wales they called people by their occupation, i.e. Dai the bus, Emlyn the milk. My Grandad was called Richard Lewis and he had and electric shop, they called him electric Dick.
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oh dear - looking for my great great aunt the other day and turned up family of "C*ckrings" by accident :-[
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I used to have an old lady friend, who's sister was called Monica.
It always amused me when Mrs O referred to her sister as "our Monica"!!
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A lady who has become legend in my area was named Ophelia. She married Mr Dickie ;)
Mo
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My friend at work has the unfortunate surname of Horney which is actually a corruption of Horniblow (yes have done her tree)
We had to change the set up of her e-mail address because the domain started rejecting it!
Willow x
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50 years ago a railway depot in the East Midlands had the following staff by consecutive pay numbers: Herc*ck; Hisc*ck and Myc*ck; we were instructed (yes really!) that when we were checking the timesheets at this depot to refer to them as Smith, Smith, Smith, so as to not give offence to the ladies in the office.
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oh this thread has had me giggling for about half an hour now. i was reasearching moore the other day and came across a ponder moore!
my nan swears her neighbour had the surname roads and called their son dusty!
but my favourite in my tree is a lady called decima shackcloth, a unusual name anyway, but when she married she became decima knobbs (say it fast enough) needless to say my husband took to asking me every 10 mins for the rest of the day 'decima knobbs?!' ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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There's really no answer to that, except that in Poole there is a pub named "The Dorset Knob"!
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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].
You can imagine what the germans though of the drink Irish Mist
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I had a maths teacher named Pratt....................and he was.
George.
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I remember a teacher named Piddle.
Betty
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Hi
Wasn't the surname that caught my eye :o
Sexy Cook
Freebmd Oct 1848 Bedminster Gloucs
Z :)
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My mother often spoke of a friend when she was young, likely the '20's.
Friend Ima's last name was Hogg. ???
How could parents do that.
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re Ima Hogg: Was your mother from Texas?
When I was a kid, other people talked about Ima having a sister named Ura. She was actually quite an amazing woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg
According to the cited article, "Similar unfortunate baby names according to United States Census records include Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut, Ima Hooker, Ima Weiner, Ima Reck, Ima Pain and Ima Butt."
Nick
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My mother was from Ontario (Canada)
Quite a story there on Wikipedia.
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A modern one. Has anyone else spotted that the name Asil Nadir is an anagram of Lisa Drain. Quite appropriate!
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i have an unfortunate surname but not of the past! i was talking yesterday on the phone to a mrs Tiplady! lol
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I've just come across a wonderful surname - Welch-Lamb ::) I kid you not!!
BumbleB
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Hi,
Until now I have not come across any unfortunate names, the only one is a female in my tree with the name Stewart, has anyone else come across the name Stewart for a girl?
Sharon
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No, haven't come across a girl using a boy's name - but I do have four guys in my tree called Allison two cousins, then one of them married into a family who had two in their family. Whilst they were all in the West Riding, they came from different areas.
BumbleB
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As a variation on the subject, how about unfortunate initials.
I won't use his full last name because I'm sure he is still around, but back in High School there was a fellow names Vern Davi...........
We called him "disease". Maybe one should say unfortunate friends.
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A ndrew R onald Sole who preferred to sign his name Ron
My neice married a Merry then a Bright
A friend was Bird and married a Brain.
A lad at school with a polish background, well it started with W ended in offski, guess the rest.
My name is Beard hopeless when searching as I get all the long, grey, black and shorts.
My mum was a Voyce.
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Ron Sole; yes understandable he should sign thus. In Lincolnshire there is a village Mavis Enderby. This is also a surname, the male bearers of the name invariably hyphenate the two words.
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Stewart for a girl
In 1840s Scotland, Stewart was almost solely a female name. Found this some time ago while transcribing 1841 census.
Nick
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Thanks Nick,
My Stewart was born in Cumberland but there are probably Scottish roots somewhere.
Sharon
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Sometimes it is just the combinations of names that make them unfortunate and I was reminded again of that with your post Mike, especially your own surname where parents have unwittingly given a daughter the name Helen, causing much derision! ... difficult with marriage combinations to choose, though many women of course keep their own now, e.g Faye who didn't think it was wise to take the surname King!... one of those everyday names you have to be careful with ;)
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Polly Gammie
I checked that her husband was only ever married once. Why she didn't choose any of the other nicknames for Mary, I don't know. ;D
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Iknew a guy called Crapper, who was in his 40s. He announced that he wasn't having his children brought up with a name like that, so he was changing it to Brown. Couldn't help thinking there wasn't much difference....
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I went to school with a chap named Les Brain,but he was always known as Brain Les.
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When I worked for the DHSS (National Insurance Office) about 30 years ago (crikey, was it that long ago?!) a name I remember from my client records is Grabzebalski. Honestly. Think the chap was Polish. It was a source of great merriment in the office at the time - can't think why ::)
A name from my own ancestry is Mary Fairy (also spelt as Farey). It always tickles me when I read it. She became Mary Branson when she married which is much more boring!
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i have just come across a walter wall, its not so much an unfortunate name but i did think to myself that its a bit mean of the parents 'wall to wall'
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Just found in Nuthurst Sussex baptisms - 1729 William Piseyfull ;D
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For a day or two I though a Moses Daffy was in my tree, but I corrected an error
Pity
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This thread made me think of a tale my dad tells about someone he knows called 'Ball' who went with his lass for the traditional chat to the vicar before they got married. The vicar declared "Oh you're all Balls and Rimmers round here!"
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This thread made me think of a tale my dad tells about someone he knows called 'Ball' who went with his lass for the traditional chat to the vicar before they got married. The vicar declared "Oh you're all Balls and Rimmers round here!"
That reminded me we used a subcontracting partnership of builders called Ball & Cox.
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Undoubtedly the worse surname of all time, as found on the freeBMD index is:
Guess
Can you imagine having to explain to someone for the rest of your life that it really is your surname?
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This reminds me of a joke that was current about the Doncaster Director of Education. He supposedly appeared on Mastermind and when asked his name replied - you guessed- Pass!
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Not a surname, but there is a place in Newfoundland called Dildo. No lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
J.
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Knew someone whose name sounded similar to "Pissintheditch". Wonder if he's still called that? ::)
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I believe there is a village in North east Scotland called Tw*t. People who bear this as a locative surname (if any) are indeed unfortunate!
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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.
^His daughter married the brother of my 6x great grandmother....
The other day, I found a more distant relative of mine had a servant called Fanny Beaver *suppresses a snigger*
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The other day, I found a more distant relative of mine had a servant called Fanny Beaver *suppresses a snigger*
I couldn't suppress one, Wharfrat - in fact that induced a whopping laugh-out-loud! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Mrs. T.
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I think I have already mentioned my "Fanny Fiddler" ;D :o
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...and again..... :o ;D ;D ;D
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These people are not part on my tree, but I came across them years ago. They were twin girls (fortunately for them, exceptionally good looking): Ima and Ura Hogg.
What were their parents thinking! :o :o :o
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Perhaps they had a VERY warped sense of humour. I once met a lady named Hogg, she both looked and smelt like one unfortunately!
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Someone had better go delete a few posts...this thread is past the 20 page limit. ::)
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A friend of mine had an elderly aunt called Minnie Small! they used to call her tiny Min she was about 4ft 6"
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Someone had better go delete a few posts...this thread is past the 20 page limit. ::)
No one seems bothered, it is well past the 20!
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There's the well known female television gardener named Gay Search and also the BBC Radio news presenter Fenella Fudge (who I believe got married). In fact, her full name is Fenella Mimosa Estelle Hadingham but married a Fudge.
In the south west of England there's a car firm named Dick Lovett.
Plus anyone with ancestors with amusing names doesn't want them to be from Fingringhoe in Essex.
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These people are not part on my tree, but I came across them years ago. They were twin girls (fortunately for them, exceptionally good looking): Ima and Ura Hogg.
What were their parents thinking! :o :o :o
Ima Hogg was born in 1882, the only daughter of Governor James Hogg of Texas. She was a noted philanthropist. Sorry, no Ura is to be found in this family.
http://www.fm.coe.uh.edu/comparisons/ima1a.html
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In the south west of England there's a car firm named Dick Lovett.
I once knew of a man named Hugh Dick (Think about it!)
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I've seen the Surname PEE, christian names John Thomas . I 've just noticed someone having 3 christian names in another family Faith, Hope and Charity.
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I've seen the Surname PEE, christian names John Thomas . I 've just noticed someone having 3 christian names in another family Faith, Hope and Charity.
Would John Willy have been worse?
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Possibly!
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I've got another unfortunate when saddled with christian name ,Fanny Bate.
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A lady named Towle called her son Terry because she thought it was appropriate.
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I know a lady who had a surname of "White" and she married a gentleman and decided to hyphenate her name....unfortunate really as his surname was "Winters".
I kid you not!
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I went to school with a boy whose surname was Outhouse. Not sure if other countries attach the same meaning to this word, which we Canadians use for the little house at the end of the garden with a crescent moon on the door.
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Canada and rural USA I believe, we call(ed) them closets amongst other things.
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From the past (Yesterday BBC 1pm News!!) French winegrower, Dominique Paillearse, or which might translate as Bucketbutt :) Poor bloke!!
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Your French translation is seriously flawed. ;D Although it is Paillarse, without the e.
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That still makes it Bucket Butt, the translation was intended to be more frivolous than accurate. :D
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OK. Reading it in english that is so. In French your spelling would be straw butt.
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Probably worse in French, sounds a high fire risk. :D
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Depends what is on the menu.
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I have Goodwillie on my family tree a few centuries ago - quite happy to see that one phased out although I think there's a footballer by that name - possibly a distant relative?
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I am reminded of a girl from school who had a child (whilst still at High School, heh), who she called "Christian"
Some years later, I bumped into her, caught up on one or two things. She'd married a fella with the surname........Christian.
"Does that mean....is your youngest called Christian Christian?"
She assured me he wasn't but I was never sure....
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Haven't read through all the pages in this thread but this grave on my site is interesting (wifes' first/last name).
http://www.digdeeper.org.uk/images/genealogy/john_hole.jpg
Paul
PS Including her middle name also has some sort of filthy connotation (FF Manhole) :D
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From the present: Cruddas-Butt ;)
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Noticed this tonight while looking for something else on Berkshire Marriage Index:
Parish of Speen, St Mary, 5 March 1717/18:
John CRAP married Mary SHITTLE :-X
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In the south west of England there's a car firm named Dick Lovett.
I once knew of a man named Hugh Dick (Think about it!)
Wonder if this bloke was Head of the family?
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In the south west of England there's a car firm named Dick Lovett.
I once knew of a man named Hugh Dick (Think about it!)
Wonder if this bloke was Head of the family?
Surely he would have to be Richard Head ;)
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Funny you should say that Roger, there used to be an insurance broker (in Colchester I think - Essex anyway) bearing that unfortunate name. Caused a few sniggers among my more junior colleagues ...............
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My father-in-law was named Richard and gave his only son the same name. They were known in the community as Big D--- and Little D--- and I think neither of them enjoyed that familiarity! :-[
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Austin Severn & Miles Long.
I kid you not..know ém both.
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We can't forget John Doe and his brother Dil
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Though I never worked with a Richard Head, I once worked with a Richard Willey (now deceased) He was known to everyone who worked with him as Dick, but always referred to himself as Richard.
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Found Fanny Holder in burial records recently ;)
Mo
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I found......
Reverend Isaac Hunt.
b.1742 Barbados
d.1809 London
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I found......
Reverend Isaac Hunt.
b.1742 Barbados
d.1809 London
50 years ago I calculated the wages for a man of that name every week. He was from the West Indies strangely enough.
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This one's a more recent one; -
Expecting parents, none too bright, had just found out they were having a little girl. Still excited, they were doing the household shopping when they found a product name on the shelves, and thought it sounded pretty ... so when she was born, they gave the child a name they pronounced as
"Kerraussinay"
The actual spelling on this poor little girl's BC is "Kerosene"
:o
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More recently (well, not very recently, readers will work out the approximate date as we go along) I heard tell of a boy whose mum took him to the village school to line him up for the recception class - "And what's your son's name?" Mum: "Seen." Teacher (a bit confused, hadn't met this name before, decides on subterfuge to find out more): "That's nice. Please could you pop in tomorrow with his birth certificate?"
So tomorrow comes, birth cert brought in by Mum, spelling of the name is Sean. Teacher, brightly: "And how did you choose that name?" Mum:"Well, there's Sean Connery in the Bond films and I really like him."
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My daughter once had a pupil whose forename was Lenin; the boy's mother told her he had been named after the Beetle who was murdered, i.e. John Lenin!!
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I recently had to create a corporate email account for a placement student from Korea, his "2nd" first name was "Bum", it did cause quite an amusement in our area and apparently in the department he was due to work in (as I double checked what was his family name). Admittedly it isn't likely to have the same connotations in Korea, but it's a little unfortunate for him working over here. ;D
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just today i came across a woman with the name gotobed also is there really a michael hunt out there?
anonemouse
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Now here's a young lady from the 1871 Census with a few problems her name was Fanny Whistler :-[
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I know one anonemouse :o ;D. I always call him Michael ;D
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I have just found a 1901 Census entry while looking for a distant relative.
Clara Sullivan 22
Willie Dick 3 :o
Vincent Dea 3
Why do parents do this?
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also is there really a michael hunt out there?
anonemouse
Yes ,he sells used cars here in Brisbane. It is a genuine used car dealership:
( warning -don't watch below link if easily offended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9bSjMejdo
Kind regards
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This thread referred earlier to an Isaac Hunt a minister in the West Indies. I calculated the wages for an Isaac Hunt when I worked in a railway payroll section 50 years ago.,
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This thread referred earlier to an Isaac Hunt a minister in the West Indies. I calculated the wages for an Isaac Hunt when I worked in a railway payroll section 50 years ago.,
quote author=Redroger link=topic=610843.msg4656195#msg4656195 date=1348570632]
I found......
Reverend Isaac Hunt.
b.1742 Barbados
d.1809 London
50 years ago I calculated the wages for a man of that name every week. He was from the West Indies strangely enough.
Your repeating yourself Redroger.
tHAT CUT AND PASTE ENDED UP A LITTLE STRANGE
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The repetition was deliberate to ensure the current reader had access to it!! ;)
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Though so far as I know the following is ficticious, the surname given and the address certainly exist:
Mr and Mrs. Weedon, Pi**y Bush Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster ;)
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A little more innocuous, Policemen named PC Bobby (Warwickshire) and Sergeant Sargent (Staffs).
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Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!
Molly :'(
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Believe you Molly, 50 years ago a woman at Grimsby named her son Terry; her surname Towle!!
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Years ago, there was a MORRIS family who named their son Austin - and yes, he worked at the car plant at Cowley.
(But no, he wasn't related to the William Morris (Lord Nuffield) who founded the company ::))
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I've just been reminded by my sons, that they were at school with a girl called Juliette Cox. And No. 1 son remembers a girl called Lindsey Doyle.
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Years ago, there was a MORRIS family who named their son Austin - and yes, he worked at the car plant at Cowley.
(But no, he wasn't related to the William Morris (Lord Nuffield) who founded the company ::))
What about the Rugby star, Austin Healey?
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I know a family surnamed Minor, strangely he was worked for the coal board as an underground fitter. No, his son was NOT named Morris.
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I used to work with a girl named Anette Kirton.
Jackie
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Nicholas Mann?
Helen Back?
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In my family tree we have John Wetmore.
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And I have never know what to make with Mercy Jelly.
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Two children of the same family- Anna and Faletic . Surname Shokk
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I once had to call a gentleman to an interview room and had to keep a straight face as his first name was Biggles ..... others in his family were .... Hericopter and Hurricane .............
???
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My Grandmothers maiden name
F**ny Wragg
it didn't occur to me until someone laughed
john
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I worked with a man who had been adopted as a child from Mexico ..... his first name was Juan and his adoptive surname was .... I kid you not ...... Inche.
Oh dear ???
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My maiden surname was Crackles.
I learned to fight at school from an early age ;)
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My maiden name was LOVELADY. I was always proud of it.
My Dad was Richard Lovelady called Dick
My Brother was also Richard.
When working together on a building site they were known as Big Dick and Little Dick.
True story.
Incidentally, I married a Philpott
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Some real howlers on here....and laugh out load moments....brings to mind a time many years ago when I was helping out at the golf club when someone asked me to go into the clubhouse and ask if anyone had seen Mike Hunt :o
Carol
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Carol, I'm sure no one had seen him ;) ;D ;D
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I can still feel my cheeks burn when I remember the responses I got ;D ;D
Carol
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How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!
Molly,
I have a name very similar in my tree, female but surname is minus the 'on'
I kid you not ;)
Annie
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Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!
Molly :'(
In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
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My sister is due to become Mrs Dickman when she gets married in April. We have an ancestor with the surname Titman. If only those families had met and gone double-barrelled! (My sister doesn't find this funny.)
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I know of a boy called Terry because his mother thought it appropriate. Her surname TOWEL
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Great site, has kept a smile on my face for ages.
My uncle William Crompton Thompson married a Louise Talbot (now both deceased), nothing wrong with that but my parents used to enjoy telling people that a WC married a Loo.
However many years ago I had a client called Carey Hunt, oh boy you had to be careful how you said his name!!!!
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My Mum's GP had the surname of Doctor" - so he of course was Dr. Doctor!
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I've always been glad none of my lot married into this family
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kildare/Morristownbiller/Cornelscourt/568051/
not that they weren't nice people, I knew some of their descendants back in the day and they were lovely but it must be one of the most difficult names to live with and not a name to just throw into google to see what turns up.
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I have a Hunt line in my family, lucky none of them were called Mike. ;D
I did find an Ann Prick in my family tree recently. No rellies called Ivor luckily.
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Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!
Molly :'(
In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
And Terry Towelling (honest!)
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Today I have found ... Ethel Trippass
;D poor lass
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In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
Aren't we forgetting the English rugby player Austin Healey ? I see no reason for 'kidding' - some parents are eager to do this, I think very few will have been unaware (unless the famous name came later of course). I remember some unfortunate child being given all the names of the Liverpool football team, in about the 1980s I think.
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I taught an Earl Flynn and a Hubert Haddock.
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In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
Aren't we forgetting the English rugby player Austin Healey ? I see no reason for 'kidding' - some parents are eager to do this, I think very few will have been unaware (unless the famous name came later of course). I remember some unfortunate child being given all the names of the Liverpool football team, in about the 1980s I think.
I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.
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I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion player Charlie Oatway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway)
"Oatway's full name is Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway. The reason behind this rather unusual name is the fact that both his parents were Queens Park Rangers fans, and decided to give their son the names of QPR's entire 1973 first team squad. When his parents told his aunt the proposed name, she said "he'd look a right Charlie", and the name stuck."
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I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.
Very likely both, I should think any club worthy of the name would have at least one deluded fan. I lived nearer to Liverpool than Manchester at that time.
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Some great examples here :
http://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/names.htm
Including "Bele Wydecunthe"
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I knew of a child named Terry Towel, because his mother thought it appropriate. Poor kid!
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One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.
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One of my lines is the County Durham Freak, Frieck, Freick, etc. name. I am sure the ladies with that name are glad to get married.
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One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.
That would make a great double-barrelled surname ;D
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I was reminded of this news story....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7522952.stm
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Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.
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Of course there is the world famous cricket commentary by Brian Johnston when England were playing the West Indies " The bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey"
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Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.
And........his legacy lives on! ;D
Good old Thomas Crapper!
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Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.
The one I quoted was Crap, not Crapper. It was from 1716.
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A relative of mine, he may even be a direct rellie and remarried quite old was Matthias Eade who wed Elizabeth Pissey in Saxtead, Suffolk in 1743.
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When I was a milkman, a Dutch couple on my round named their little girl Iona Marina which always made me smile, being a child of the '70s.
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One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.
That would make a great double-barrelled surname ;D
It would indeed, then the Shittle-Craps could live in Butthole Lane Nr. Doncaster, and if they were very fortunate their daughter might marry a PIDDLE.
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My ancestors lived at Turner's Piddle in Dorset. Then I believe they moved up in the world to possibly the worst address in the country, at No2, Shitterton
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One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.
That would make a great double-barrelled surname ;D
It would indeed, then the Shittle-Craps could live in Butthole Lane Nr. Doncaster, and if they were very fortunate their daughter might marry a PIDDLE.
;D ;D ;D
Carol
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It would make a jolly good expletive too! I can just imagine using that when I stub my toe or some other stupid thing that hurts!! Ouch,! ------ "ShittleCrap"
Or if I think someone is telling me a lie! ;D ;D ;D
I've just been uptown to get my groceries on Harley! When I was coming back, I had to pass a group older biker people that were gathered on the footpath outside a motor bike showroom. Some lovely bikes there, including a Harley! They stood aside to let me through, and one guy asked me if I wanted a race! ;D ;D ;D
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one guy asked me if I wanted a race! ;D ;D ;D
Too slow Jeanne,
You should have replied..'Aye a Scotsman' ::)
Annie
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;D ;D ;D ;D. Aye!! 😜 He was actually quite cute too!.,
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I have Elisabethen Tixtorn whose father, Agnaa, married Agnes Altgelt about 1618 in Siegen, Westfalen, Prussia. I hope they were not prosecuted for witchcraft.
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Has anyone mentioned Shatwell?