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Title: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Wednesday 25 March 09 12:45 GMT (UK)
Whilst trawling through census and parish records I found the following:

Jam Curry - Married Tiverton, Devon 1854
Fanny Crease - Born Reading, Berkshire c1878 (From 1901 census)
Nimrod Buckett - Born Portsmouth, Hampshire 1820

 ;D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Ayashi on Wednesday 25 March 09 12:54 GMT (UK)
 ;D

That is just child cruelty...
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Wednesday 25 March 09 12:57 GMT (UK)
Worst bit is that they are real! Heres another:

S. Hit - Born London 1862 (1871 census, Kensington).

Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Ayashi on Wednesday 25 March 09 12:59 GMT (UK)
Having said that my brother was saying yesterday that his friend applied for university under the name "Meanrock Distructicon"  ;D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Wednesday 25 March 09 13:00 GMT (UK)
Bet they laughed at him did they?
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Ayashi on Wednesday 25 March 09 13:11 GMT (UK)
No, he got accepted, rofl. He didn't go, but he got the letter framed  :D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Wednesday 25 March 09 13:18 GMT (UK)
So when ancestry publish university applicants in 300 years time, people will find it hilarious!
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Just Kia on Wednesday 25 March 09 14:50 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Ayashi Foxtail on Wednesday 25 March 09 12:59 GMT (UK)
"Meanrock Distructicon"
Typo or Transformers fan?
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Ayashi on Wednesday 25 March 09 14:53 GMT (UK)
 :P I don't know how you spell it... but probably Transformers fan :D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: pete edwards on Wednesday 25 March 09 15:07 GMT (UK)
one of them ones you dread in a lift ;D

    Minnie Fart

pete :) :)
 

Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Sloe Gin on Wednesday 25 March 09 20:50 GMT (UK)
I'd rather her than Major Fart.
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: pete edwards on Wednesday 25 March 09 23:46 GMT (UK)
God help his wife  in  the "Dutch oven"  ;D ;D ;D

Pete :)
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Thursday 26 March 09 00:29 GMT (UK)
Sarah Pissey Loud - Married Bath. Somerset 1874
Emily Spew Hole - Born Barton Regis, Gloucestershire 1885
Teresa Fartwangler - Born Usk, Monmouthshire c1828 (1871 Cardiff Census)

THESE GET WORSE!
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Rewcastle on Thursday 26 March 09 12:16 GMT (UK)
apparently in the pc world that we now live in, daft names are dieing out...  :(  link (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090325/tuk-life-us-britain-names-fa6b408.html)

The meaning of the word Daft was 'Meek and Mild'
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Musicman on Thursday 26 March 09 19:28 GMT (UK)
There’s an article in about names in today’s Daily Mail – with examples.  I won’t quote any because (a) I’m far too polite, (b) I’m not sure I understand most of them.  http://www.rootschat.com/links/05xn/

Oh, alright then – just a couple of examples that amused me: Sue Age (born 1849), Posthumous Mince (died 1839) and finally Anice Bottom (baptised 1837).

John
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Thursday 26 March 09 20:56 GMT (UK)
Fantastic. Cant beat a good laugh at someone elses expense!  ;D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Pugwash34 on Sunday 29 March 09 10:29 BST (UK)
Some time ago when I was a bit bored in work, I went onto ancestry and did some census searches on funny names. I found a Donald Duck, a Minnie Mouse, a Betty Snot, a Ben Dover.  a Homer Simpson,quite a few Harry Potters and tons of rude ones.



Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Sunday 29 March 09 23:23 BST (UK)
Peculiar Buttery - Married Wolverhampton 1871
May Pole - Born Leicester 1904
Fanny Titball - On the 1871 Tetcott Census

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Evie on Sunday 29 March 09 23:44 BST (UK)
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

My OH thought I'd finally lost it when I started to LOL to myself reading this thread. It reminded me of one that was married at the same time as my ancestor in Cheshire

Joseph Shatwell :o

No laxatives needed for him then ;D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: Vasquez109 on Sunday 29 March 09 23:47 BST (UK)
Did you know that a Sarah Smallass married John Watson in Norfolk, 1751. Wonder if she asked "Does my bum look big in this?"

 :D
Title: Re: Daft names
Post by: AMBLY on Monday 30 March 09 00:01 BST (UK)
Came across this one the other day - more sad than daft though, since we immediately wonder if  the "b" stands for born.... :'(

Isabella Base B DICKINSON married  Jun Qtr 1893, Ulverston

Cheers
AMBLY