RootsChat.Com

General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: jillruss on Monday 20 February 06 13:05 GMT (UK)

Title: Fitting Name!
Post by: jillruss on Monday 20 February 06 13:05 GMT (UK)
I have an ancestor called RICHARD KNIFE.

Unusual name! Just discovered from his will that he was a surgeon! How appropriate!

Any other fitting surnames?   ;D

Jill
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Lendevon on Wednesday 22 February 06 14:43 GMT (UK)
My grandfather was a seaman called Shipp.
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: goggy on Thursday 23 February 06 11:20 GMT (UK)
Three brothers,two ,my Uncles,one my Dad,all named Kay,all worked on the docks,docks=quay,pronounced Kay.
Old maps of Liverpool show miles of riverside land as Kay,sadly.not ours!!
             Goggy. ;) ;D
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Headbanger Veron on Friday 24 February 06 23:48 GMT (UK)
A whole family of carpenters called..... wait for it..... Carpenter (and one of them married a Miss Wood which is why I'm here today)......

 ;) Veron
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: bwgan ceredig on Friday 24 February 06 23:53 GMT (UK)
Well I've got Smarts and Brights so obviously they fit ;D, but I've also Stiffs and Crumps... ??? ;D, no comments please! ;D

I've got a Smith called Smith ::) ;D...at least I think he's mine :-\
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: goggy on Saturday 25 February 06 05:22 GMT (UK)
Found an interesting piece of info.in a St Clare/Clair/Sinclair history.
Smith's,from Egypt,many moon's ago,very much respected by the Nobility.
Nowaday's called Gypsie's!
         Goggy. ;) ;D
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: liverpool annie on Saturday 25 February 06 05:42 GMT (UK)





Cooper's too Goggy!!  ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Wendi on Friday 03 March 06 22:58 GMT (UK)
Not my family, but I know the estimator for a local company is a Mr. Price

 ;D

Wendi
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Guy Etchells on Friday 03 March 06 23:06 GMT (UK)
I used to drive for a living and on my travels to county Durham in the North of England I came across a butchers van with the proprietors name address & business emblazoned on the side.

A. Thief,
Butcher,
Crook.

Cheers
Guy

Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Shropshire Lass on Monday 06 March 06 00:03 GMT (UK)
I always had a laugh at the estate agent's boards I saw in Worcestershire - Doolittle & Dalley!

They must be good to stay in business with a name like that!

Monica
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: bwgan ceredig on Monday 06 March 06 16:40 GMT (UK)
If we are talking about non family, then there used to be a butcher near where I live called A Veale :o  8);D - honest!! ;D
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: jimmyv on Thursday 09 March 06 00:20 GMT (UK)
If we are talking about non family, then there used to be a butcher near where I live called A Veale :o  8);D - honest!! ;D

Spooky, my Dad's Brother George Veale was a butcher in the Army and then in Whitburn, Co Durham just after WW2
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Sisterjane on Thursday 09 March 06 00:38 GMT (UK)
My mate had a very delicate operation about 3 years ago and the surgeon was called Mr Sharp  8)

Joe
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: RuthieB on Thursday 09 March 06 18:51 GMT (UK)
As I've said on this site somewhere before:
many of my Joneses were smiths!!

RuthieB
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: runner on Thursday 09 March 06 20:51 GMT (UK)
Did know a STAKE family years ago. They had a dearly loved, unexpected late arrival, daughter but I didn't know her first name.

I suppose she was MissStake

Russell
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Wendi on Friday 10 March 06 13:26 GMT (UK)
Well if we are gona get silly,

wasn't Jasper Carrot who said that if he had a daughter he was going to name her

Nora
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: pipkim on Sunday 19 March 06 10:07 GMT (UK)
I recently saw the name "Justin Tynne", I don't know where I saw it, but it makes me  :)  when ever I think of it. What story lies behind that name?

Pipkim
 :)
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Sisterjane on Sunday 19 March 06 10:45 GMT (UK)
For those of you who enjoy a belly-bursting laugh this thread is the best.
Even those who have already read it its still just as funny

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,88693.0.html

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,65920.msg268400.html#msg268400

Joe
Title: Re: Fitting Name!
Post by: Isles on Sunday 19 March 06 10:50 GMT (UK)
On a slightly different note, how about this old chestnut ?

Notice seen in the window of a chemist's shop:  "We dispense with accuracy".   Kindly leave the stage ??  O.K. O.K.  Just trying to bring a little laughter into your lives !

Isles.