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Offline PennyQ

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #72 on: Thursday 04 May 06 08:26 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

My worst name has to be Branch , googling gives you every branch of everything from trees to shops to agencies............grrrr
Add George to that and get every branch of the St George bank in Oz (where I am)

Second would have to be Quayle and you get every stupid thing Dan Quayle ever said, I am sooooooo sick of him, (Haven't connected him to our family yet, thank goodness....lol)

Penny
Quayle, Isle of Man
Branch, Hambidge, Stevens, Chilton, Wakeman......Middlesex, Hayes, Harefield,

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #73 on: Thursday 04 May 06 09:04 BST (UK) »
Good one PennyQ!!

And to think that I thought that Hacking was a bad name!

JAP

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #74 on: Thursday 04 May 06 12:40 BST (UK) »
My worst is Harrison, especially in Durham where they came from, Im sure every coal miner in Durham was a Harrison.  the problem is who is related to who. 

And every Harrison is renamed after another harrison, my ggrandfather and ggrandmother decided to name all their children after her brothers and sisters and that hasnt helped although its nearly sorted now.

Its like the needle got stuck on the record.

Yvonne

Snowball/Brown - Whitby, Yorks
Harrison - Durham
Millership - Worcestershire
Burrows - Much Woolton, Liverpool
Phipp(s) - Middlesex/Liverpool
Saggerson - Prescot, Lancs
Nelson - Bishop Auckland
Willis - Prescot, Lancs
Tyrer - Lancashire
Kettle - Lancashire
Reeves - Worcestershire

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #75 on: Thursday 04 May 06 12:44 BST (UK) »
I have 5 Abraham Simpsons and if I try to find anything online about them I only get Homers dad!

Anna x
McLeods - Hartlepool, Liverpool, Inverness(?)<br />Simpsons - Carlisle, Westmorland<br />Harris - Carlisle, Kent<br />Reads - Birmingham and Staffordshire<br />Allens - Marylebone London<br />Zych - Poland
Holmes - Bawdsey, Suffolk
Perks - Hampshire
McQueen - Carlisle
Carrick - Carlisle
Haugh - Carlisle
Irving - Irving
Collett - Bredon, Worcester
Harrison - Carlisle
Knight - Carlisle
Thompson - Carlisle
Johnstone - Carlisle
Rogerson - Dumfries and Carlisle
Wood - Ontario