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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Erato on Thursday 21 February 19 23:37 GMT (UK)
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A very small lake is named after one of my gg-grandfathers and one g-grandpa has a village street that bears his name. But best of all is 'Isaac Staples Pale Ale,' named after a first cousin four times removed. It even has his picture on the label. It is described as having "a bright, burnt-straw color and is full-bodied with citrus and pit fruit characters. It has lemon, citrus and peach aromas and opens with a bold grapefruit flavor and finishes with a balanced hoppy kick that is not over-powering, but not at all bashful either.
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I have Cumbrian ancestors called Gibson, first in Penrith, then in Ambleside.
There is an alley called Gibson's yard in Penrith and a hill called Gibson Knott close to Ambleside. I have absolutely no proof that either were named after a direct ancestor, but it doesn't stop me claiming them.
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I have Cumbrian ancestors called Gibson, first in Penrith, then in Ambleside.
There is an alley called Gibson's yard in Penrith and a hill called Gibson Knott close to Ambleside. I have absolutely no proof that either were named after a direct ancestor, but it doesn't stop me claiming them.
Mike, if you get in touch with the local council they may have the history of who/why the names were derived?
A friend of mine, although only about 25 yrs ago enquired at our council offices to find out where/how the name of her street came about & they were able to tell her!
I can't recall the name of the street or the details given but I know it wasn't built too long ago but worth asking as I'm sure there should be something to go on?
Annie
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There is/was a Sando Row in Redruth Cornwall where my lot came from.
Not to mention the various places in Devon ending in Pyne.
Here in SA, my great grandfather named their street after his wife; at least until the local council decided to rename it Windsor after the royal family.
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My mother's family have a university library named after them (money donated by distant cousin) and when my cousin applied to study at same university she was offered a very large scholarship and then asked if she was related!
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My GG-Grandfather has a river named after him in NE Tasmania - Ransom River.
His mother's second husband was Von Stieglitz - There are several places ranges etc named after the Stieglitz family - In Tasmania they are spelled Stieglitz and in Victoria they are named Steiglitz - same family though.
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Choules Street, in Byford, Western Australia, named after the family.
A road, Choules Close, in Pershore, Worcestershire, and an Australian naval Ship HMAS Choules, named for a cousin Claude Choules 1901-2011.
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Arthur Place in Croydon, Victoria, Australia is named for my grandfather. When he died in 1918 he owned a parcel of land in Croydon. My grandmother later sub-divided the land and named the street Arthur Place in his memory.
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https://peakbook.org/en/peakbook-element/64961/en/Pico+Simons.html
Pico Simons in the Sierra Nevada di Santa Marta in Colombia named after a second cousin twice removed, Frederick Adolphus Alexander Simons.
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There is an Abrehart Road in Packenham, Victoria, Australia on the site of the old farm my Abreharts owned when they migrated there from Mitcham, Surrey, UK in the 1880's.
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There is a Pay Street in the village where my Pay ancestors were living in the 1750s, and Lake Byron in South Dakota is named after a very distant Pay cousin in the 1860s.
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There are two areas where relatives of ny ancestors lived,on top of a range of hills in South Shropshire.
Blakemore Flat and Blakemore Gate.
If named after them I am not certain but a big coincidence as they lived there.
Little smallholdings,subsistence living,worked by the lead miners after a full
shift underground.
Abandoned now but one cottage renovated to be as it was when occupied as a record of the living conditions there up to 1940 s/50s.
Oh how I would love to live there, the little gardens still witha a few stunted gooseberry bushes and fruit trees,hedges leaning over in the prevailing wind.
I wonder if they are named after the family.
It was in one ,quite ruined and the back wall fallen down so you could get into the bedroom,that I went exploring and in an old rusty tin trunk was a Bible with my grsndmother’s name in it.
There could well have been another family member with the same first name and she did not live there to my knowledge but her cousins did.
I did not take it to my regret but abandoned though it was I knew it would be stealing so reluctantly left it.I mean ,stealing a bible!
Viktoria.
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My grandmother was a Bartlett, descended from a family of gardeners near Cheltenham in the early 1800s. Family folklore claimed they grew Bartlett pears, which may have been true, but any connection with the family is either a coincidence or a myth :-[
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According to this history, the name came from an Enoch Bartlett of Massachusetts. Is he in your (pear) tree? ;D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_pear
Carol
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My Threlfalls came from Southport area, and possibly from Goosnargh area prior to that ("Threlfall" as an area there seems to have been used in early times )and there are places such as "Threlfall's Brow" and "Threlfall Lane" recorded .... and I'm told there are distant links to the defunct Brewery of the same name, but sadly, nothing more exalted!