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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #198 on: Tuesday 22 April 08 21:49 BST (UK) »
'Caroline Peasfood' sounds more like an accusation than a name!!!   ;D

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« Reply #199 on: Tuesday 22 April 08 21:53 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D    George Benjamin Tit  born  Mar 1864 

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« Reply #200 on: Tuesday 22 April 08 21:55 BST (UK) »
1891  Mary A Shagger  :o :o :o

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« Reply #201 on: Tuesday 22 April 08 22:02 BST (UK) »
Poor 'Willie Little' 1841 scotland   ;D



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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #1
« Reply #202 on: Sunday 10 August 14 21:54 BST (UK) »
I have an ancestor who was Fanny Jeacocke
she married a Walter Wackett and became Fanny Wackett  :o

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #1
« Reply #203 on: Monday 11 August 14 19:12 BST (UK) »
The surname PIMP appears several times in 19th century Lincolnshire censuses.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #1
« Reply #204 on: Monday 11 August 14 19:18 BST (UK) »
My dear gran, thinking about names one day, announced "when I was a girl there were a lot of Fannys about!"

Bless her, she couldn't understand why it was so amusing!
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #1
« Reply #205 on: Monday 11 August 14 21:01 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisajb on Monday 11 August 14 19:18 BST (UK)
My dear gran, thinking about names one day, announced "when I was a girl there were a lot of Fannys about!"

Bless her, she couldn't understand why it was so amusing!

Is there any family tree that does not have a Fanny? ;D  I have more than one and just yesterday found another!  So yes a very popular name.
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Sussex - Knapp. Nailard. Potten. Coleman. Pomfrey. Carter. Picknell
Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #1
« Reply #206 on: Monday 11 August 14 21:11 BST (UK) »
Most unfortunate surname I have found is Higginbottom
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