Unfortunate surnames of the past #1

[Willow 4873]

You do have some interesting customers lol

Willow x

[Lucy2]

I once spent many, many, hours trawling through all the "Mc and Mac D.....'s" in a birth index.     I didn't find any of my "rellies" !     The frustration and boredom was immense  !

At the point of near insanity though, I happened upon the delightfully-named

                           " Farquhar Arsethorpe"

Poor little blighter         Sadly,  he wasn't one of my lot.    Ah .... but what a "reward" for all those long hours of searching !

Lu

[littlefishlock]

I've had another customer this week whose name we've all been struggling with - a Mrs Glasscock

I wonder if she was connected to a Fanny Glasscock on the 1841 census.

[littlefishlock]

Check this one out

Fanny Slack, born 1890 in WOMBWELL

[billkent]

Are you sure that isn't just an old telegram you've discovered? people often sent them after a happy event.

[littlefishlock]

lol... No, she is real, I found her birth entry.

but it does sound like it should be a funny joke

[sharmar]

Recently found out that a friend who is a Mr Monk married a Miss Nunn!!!!

Didn't think that was aloud!!!!

[Lucy2]

   ...  Mr WRATT  married  Miss  BATE.

She always bragged, "he was a really good catch" !   

[Matt R]

I had a mate at school once called Bates.
Always amused me to think of what his letters said:

Mr Master Bates.

Never ceases to amuse me!

Over and out