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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #27 on: Monday 10 April 23 01:07 BST (UK) »
Quote from: zetlander on Sunday 09 April 23 09:58 BST (UK)
Problems sometimes occur when a woman takes her husbands surname on marriage
Thankfully Whoopie Goldberg never got together with Peter Cushing  ;D

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #28 on: Monday 10 April 23 12:49 BST (UK) »
Next door to my aunt in Birmingham was a couple called Mr and Mrs Onions. Except that they pronounced it ON-Eye-ONS. 

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« Reply #29 on: Monday 10 April 23 13:27 BST (UK) »
Currently reading a judge's memoirs and he despairs of a couple naming their daughter Delenda.

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« Reply #30 on: Monday 10 April 23 16:07 BST (UK) »
I went to school with a girl called Anna Rack
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CAPES Hull. KIRK  Leeds, Hull. JONES  Wales,  Lancashire. CARROLL Ireland, Lancashire, U.S.A. BROUGHTON Leicester, Goole, Hull BORRILL  Lincolnshire, Durham, Hull. GROOM  Wishbech, Hull. ANTHONY St. John's Nfld. BUCKNALL Lincolnshire, Hull. BUTT Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. PARSONS  Western Bay, Newfoundland. MONAGHAN  Ireland, U.S.A. PERRY Cheshire, Liverpool.
 
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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #31 on: Monday 10 April 23 22:03 BST (UK) »
I heard of people whose name was Sidebottom,  ,but pronounced
Siddibottam !
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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #32 on: Monday 10 April 23 22:46 BST (UK) »
Imagine Ken Tucky dating Minnie Sotar and having a daughter Louse E Anna.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #33 on: Monday 10 April 23 22:50 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Viktoria on Monday 10 April 23 22:03 BST (UK)
I heard of people whose name was Sidebottom,  ,but pronounced
Siddibottam !
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I usually look for origins and meanings of surnames, which often give a hint as to where a family initially came from back in the mist of time:-

Surname Sidebottom:  English: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Cheshire, named with Old English sīd 'large, spacious, long' + bothm 'valley bottom'.

Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #34 on: Monday 10 April 23 23:17 BST (UK) »
I once read a blog about names. The writer contended that all the names with "bottom" were breeding out. Women with the name got married and the name ended. Men with the name died as bachelors, as no woman wanted to be lumbered with the name. How true that is, I do not know, but I can believe it. 

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« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 01:37 BST (UK) »
There are five Norman Conquest births on FreeBMD.  One even has the middle name of William.
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