Unfortunate surnames of the past #1

[Jillie42]

I have a rellie called Philadelphia Reed. Philadelphia! What a fantastic name

[Brambletye]

Just joking !!!

I'm immune after all these years - in fact I quite enjoy embarrassing people with it.

Steve

I'll bet you had a bit of fun with it at work - watching your underlings struggling with the choice between sniggering or keeping their jobs... 

I couldn't manage to suppress a grin when I saw that you call yourself "Old Bristolian" - I once had an uncle who used this term to refer to the barmaid in his favourite pub, whose visible means of support was an extremely skimpy garment.

Being a child at the time, I didn't understand it until much later - and at the time, nor why it was my mother used to rebuke him for saying it in front of me... 

[oldtimer]

Unfortunately my son changed his name to my wife's maiden name -
Steve

Not to your Fook, I hope!!!

[minnie222]

If you google you can find a town in Austria called F.....ing. Yep thats right.  Lots of Brits go there and pinch the town signs.

Barb

[Old Bristolian]

Unfortunately my son changed his name to my wife's maiden name -
Steve

Not to your Fook, I hope!!!

No, thank goodness  - it was MacDonald!

Steve

[oldtimer]

 

[Rosedale]

another one my daughter went to school with a boy named shaun dick
bubs

I went to School with a Shaun Dick too - haha - 

I have recently discovered I have a Whalley in my tree

I have Whalleys in my tree, starting with my GGrandmother - 

And Living a few doors down from one of my family in a census - a Fanny Facker.  Oh dear - too close.

[oldtimer]

There is the surname Willey too, as in the cricketer, Peter Willey.

This led to the wonderful Brian Johnstone, commentating on a test between England and the Windies, describing the positions of Willey and Michael Holding as -

The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey.

[dollylee]