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Offline minnie222

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #90 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 03:53 GMT (UK) »
My Great Grandmother was a Sidebottom.  Apparently someone we know changed theirs to siddybotham with the pronunciation

How about a client we had in the bank I worked at the time Ruby Fanny Cramp?
Hibberd: Sheffield, Dronfield, Yorkshire; Barry: England, Echuca Victoria Australia; Reid: Dumbarton to Tasmania; Parkin: Leeds to Tasmania: Younie: Moray,Scotland to Tasmania:Horsham: England to Tasmania

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #91 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 13:51 GMT (UK) »
Minnie ... I hope she's not a member of RC and/or still alive ... confidentiality and all that ?
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #92 on: Wednesday 23 January 08 14:14 GMT (UK) »
This lady was quite elderly back in the 60's so No dont think so.  I sure had some laughs at other's expense ::).

When these names were brought into being people didnt have the education and media that we have.
Hibberd: Sheffield, Dronfield, Yorkshire; Barry: England, Echuca Victoria Australia; Reid: Dumbarton to Tasmania; Parkin: Leeds to Tasmania: Younie: Moray,Scotland to Tasmania:Horsham: England to Tasmania

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #93 on: Thursday 24 January 08 13:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi all


I'm jealous, no really I am, I can't find any one with a name like any on here in my tree, gutted I am :P :P :P :P :P

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Harris(Madeley), Harris(Ironbridge) Woodvine (Dawley & anywhere else), Britton (Broseley), Hoof (Wombridge, Dawley, Shifnal), Perry (Dawley & Wellington, Deakin (Wellington), Humphries (Wombridge & Dawley), Underwood (Hinkshay) Davies (Grinshall area), Buckley (Madeley) Hamphlett (various spellings Madeley).

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #94 on: Friday 25 January 08 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Well I did have a Friggle (don't look it up in a dictionary ! ... now I know you will ...) until a fellow RootsChatter pointed out to me that it was a mistranscription of Triggle !
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR !

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #95 on: Friday 25 January 08 13:13 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Friday 25 January 08 12:22 GMT (UK)
Well I did have a Friggle (don't look it up in a dictionary ! ... now I know you will ...) until a fellow RootsChatter pointed out to me that it was a mistranscription of Triggle !

Wasn't in my dictionary so I googled  ;D

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #96 on: Saturday 26 January 08 06:15 GMT (UK) »
The late Diana Dors real name was Diana Fluck.   :)

In the 1990's in my last job I had occasion to speak to a chap from the Swindon area who had the same surname and when I mentioned that it was Diana Dors real name it turned out she was a distant cousin of whom the family were very proud of.

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #97 on: Monday 28 January 08 08:16 GMT (UK) »
Just came across a couple of new ones for me.

James Wildgoose :-\

Catherine Willgas. ???

Oh Dear.

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Hibberd: Sheffield, Dronfield, Yorkshire; Barry: England, Echuca Victoria Australia; Reid: Dumbarton to Tasmania; Parkin: Leeds to Tasmania: Younie: Moray,Scotland to Tasmania:Horsham: England to Tasmania

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #98 on: Monday 28 January 08 22:07 GMT (UK) »
LANGUAGE WARNING!!!

While researching the 1841/51 censuses on Ancestry, I found a whole family named COCKHEAD on the same page as one of my ancestors. Glad I'm not them!

However, I do have the surname CHESSON in my family. Not sure what it means, but I understand that it is very derogatory in French!

And I have a marriage way back between Mr GROSE and Ms COCK - that doesn't look good when put together on my chart!


(gosh, this is a fairly inauspicious first post on RootsChat)
NSW Convict 1836: Peter WIFFIN (alias VIVIAN)
VDL Convict 1841: Richard REES
SA Pioneers (<1847): Hornsby, Wallis, Willoughby, Floate, Mills, Chesson, Degenhardt.
SA Old Colonists (<1857): Messenger, Tyler, McFeat, Ladner, Edwards, Cassidy, Rhodes, Shaw, Waye, Sibly.
SA Colonists (<1901): Jones, Pike, Bowyer, Davey.
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