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Re: Names to match Occupations -
« Reply #36 on: Wednesday 09 March 11 18:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi! We have a urologist in town who is "Dr. Waters"!!   ;D   Pat

You're not taking the p*** are you Pat?

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« Reply #37 on: Thursday 10 March 11 00:04 GMT (UK) »
I had some friends named Kopp, but he was a postie and she was a nurse. But they had three sons...one of them might have grown up to be a policeman. ;D
Direct matriarchal line; ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Ryland-Lechford/Luxford-Bagshaw-Henriett
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis/Davies-Buck-Oakley-
JONES-Roberts-Handy-Ross-Warrillow-Eagles-Cotterill-Bailey.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

STILL LOOKING FOR: Elizabeth Ann Balfour ENNIS nee DAVIS. Disappeared in Adelaide, South Australia. 1881.

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« Reply #38 on: Thursday 10 March 11 02:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi Carol, No, not taking the pill........Mother Nature took care of that quite a few years ago!   ;D  Pat
ARCHIBALD/ARCHBALD: Tweedmouth, NBL; CHARLTON: Ponteland, NBL;
ERRINGTON: West Denton, NBL; 
FAIRLESS: Longbenton, NBL;
HARDING: Hollinside, Co. Durham;
KING: Newcastle-on-Tyne & Berwickshire;
LOCKEY: Ryton, Whickham, Co. Durham & YKS; NICHOLSON: Ponteland, Newburn, NBL; PAXTON: Norham, NBL;
PAULIN: Berwickshire; REAY, Ponteland, NBL;
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« Reply #39 on: Thursday 10 March 11 03:03 GMT (UK) »
I knew a policemen called Forster (It's true)

- but I don't think he did - I think she went willingly!!

Oh dear - to what depths have we sunk!  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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« Reply #40 on: Thursday 10 March 11 04:44 GMT (UK) »
The vet we used in Adelaide many years ago was Dr. Woof.  ;D
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« Reply #41 on: Thursday 10 March 11 04:48 GMT (UK) »
Was that real - or just what everyone called him??   ;D ;D ;D
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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« Reply #42 on: Thursday 10 March 11 21:48 GMT (UK) »
Absolutely real. Lol   There were 2 of them! I wish I had taken a picture of the sign. An iPhone would have come in handy back then.  ::)
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Buck - Nottingham
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« Reply #43 on: Thursday 10 March 11 22:32 GMT (UK) »
Absolutely real. Lol   There were 2 of them!


So did the sign say, "Woof Woof Vets"?  ;D ;D ;D

There was a dentist here called Peter Paine, seems it's the sort of name that is attracted to the medical profession.
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« Reply #44 on: Sunday 13 March 11 10:21 GMT (UK) »
Mrs Pawsey was a vet here. But she was a vet before she married Mr Pawsey. She was Miss Pugh.  ::)
Direct matriarchal line; ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Ryland-Lechford/Luxford-Bagshaw-Henriett
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis/Davies-Buck-Oakley-
JONES-Roberts-Handy-Ross-Warrillow-Eagles-Cotterill-Bailey.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

STILL LOOKING FOR: Elizabeth Ann Balfour ENNIS nee DAVIS. Disappeared in Adelaide, South Australia. 1881.