Unfortunate surnames of the past #2

[Janelle]

Today I have found ... Ethel Trippass

  poor lass

[Andrew Tarr]

In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper

Aren't we forgetting the English rugby player Austin Healey ?  I see no reason for 'kidding' - some parents are eager to do this, I think very few will have been unaware (unless the famous name came later of course).  I remember some unfortunate child being given all the names of the Liverpool football team, in about the 1980s I think.

[dublin1850]

I taught an Earl Flynn and a Hubert Haddock.

[PaulThommo]

In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper

Aren't we forgetting the English rugby player Austin Healey ?  I see no reason for 'kidding' - some parents are eager to do this, I think very few will have been unaware (unless the famous name came later of course).  I remember some unfortunate child being given all the names of the Liverpool football team, in about the 1980s I think.

I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.

[clairec666]

I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.

Former Brighton & Hove Albion player Charlie Oatway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway
"Oatway's full name is Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway. The reason behind this rather unusual name is the fact that both his parents were Queens Park Rangers fans, and decided to give their son the names of QPR's entire 1973 first team squad. When his parents told his aunt the proposed name, she said "he'd look a right Charlie", and the name stuck."

[Andrew Tarr]

I thought it was the surnames of all the Manchester United first team players (but it could have been Liverpool). Can you imagine filling out your passport application form, easier just to stay in the UK.

Very likely both, I should think any club worthy of the name would have at least one deluded fan.  I lived nearer to Liverpool than Manchester at that time.

[bradburyd]

Some great examples here :

http://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/names.htm

Including "Bele Wydecunthe"

[Redroger]

I knew of a child named Terry Towel, because his mother thought it appropriate. Poor kid!

[Sloe Gin]

One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.