Unfortunate surnames of the past #2

[Redroger]

Presumably his friends (if any) all wore clothes pegs?

[cms]

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!

[Redroger]

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.

[mommabear]

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.

[rutht22000]

oh dear - looking for my great great aunt the other day and turned up family of "C*ckrings" by accident    

[copperbeech5]

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"!!

[Rufous Treecreeper]

A lady who has become legend in my area was named Ophelia.  She married Mr Dickie 

Mo

[Willow 4873]

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

[Redroger]

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.