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Unusual surnames
« on: Sunday 09 April 06 23:20 BST (UK) »
Hello Listers

In Bedfordshire we had 'BODGERs';'HALFPENNYs'; 'RABBITs';  and 'VIRGINs'...not a lot of them left!

My mother was a 'WORKER' and as a child I grew up thinking it was a description - as in 'your're not really a WORKER, are you?'

Are any descriptive names still about?  Even someone called 'REDHEAD' - would he have a redhead?  And what about 'HALFHEAD'...the mind boggles   ;D

cathy
Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
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