The worst surnames to search for?

[Rewcastle]

When i was at school there was a teacher called Mr B*stard. Glad i'm not searching that surname, don't think there would be many message boards where you could post it on. 

[Questa]

Well here is a pain in the but...BOARD! Even if I type in BOARD family history all I get is message board.

Atm I am searching for Margaret RYAN from Tipperary lol. I think half the population was Margaret Ryan!


Oh and I'm not even going to try googling my Hoare and Hooker lines!

[Lady Di]

One of mine lived at "White House".... Hants

Try googling that one 

Other problem is William Smith - son of John Smith

Certainly challenging!

[ggrocott]

I thought the surname Northeast would be easy - I never thought about all those sites that talk about events in the Northeast of the country!

[Nick Carver]

Some of my ancestors lived at 'No Place' in Co Durham and googling was decidedly unhelpful. I also have a late 1700s bunch of Francewars. Is that an anglicised version of Francois? Who knows. The line disappears with Julian Francewar who had two daughters (thankfully). Googling that tends to rreceive the question 'Are you searching for French Military Victories?' which still returns the message that there was nothing found, did you want to search for French military defeats.

[JAP]

In this computer age my Ggpa's surname of HACKING (a fine old Lancashire surname) is a doozey!

JAP

[Elliebob]

Googling the name "Court" also gives the problems of all things legal and all those addresses!!


There is even an old people's complex called "Ellen Court" (my maiden name)

My husband's family is McConnell and although not that common, they are all called Robert and come from Co Donegal so there is the Irish problem!

Have been helping my sister in law with her family and discovered that her g-grandmother was a Cusack from a line that can be traced back to the 13th C.  No help with busband's family though as she is his half-sister and those rellies are her father's!!  Quite exciting though.   - My granddaughter did say this morning that she thought Auntie ***  thinks she's posh and I hadn't even told her of my discovery - breeding??

Ellen

[OzKat]

Googling the name "Court" also gives the problems of all things legal and all those addresses!!

As does "Grant". I've come to think of my Scottish forebears as just pests. Googling on Grant is a no-no - every financial or land grant ever made comes up. And to make matters worse my gggrandfather's name was "John".
Kath

[Comosus]

I had to search for a John Smith born Leeds 1818 (although it turned out he was actually from Huddersfield so I managed to find him).

I'm also trying to find a William White born somewhere in Ireland around 1814