Unfortunate surnames of the past #2

[rachelralph]

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?!' 

[Redroger]

There's really no answer to that, except that in Poole there is a pub named "The Dorset Knob"!

[stonechat]

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

[Seoras]

I had a maths teacher named Pratt....................and he was.

George.

[BettyofKent]

I remember a teacher named Piddle.


Betty

[z]

Hi

Wasn't the surname that caught my eye

Sexy Cook

 Freebmd Oct 1848 Bedminster Gloucs

Z

[aitkin]

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.

[nickgc]

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

[aitkin]

My mother was from Ontario (Canada)
Quite a story there on Wikipedia.