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Offline casliber

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #171 on: Monday 29 August 05 00:00 BST (UK) »
Hey, and there was I thinking it was something to do with 'Lord of the Rings'  ;D
Aberdeenshire: Nelson, Middleton, Dow, McLennan, Hendry
Ross & Cromarty: McLennan, Macaulay
Midlothian: Nelson, Lumsden
Berwickshire: Lumsden, Melrose
Stirlingshire: Dick
West Lothian/Lanark: Wark
West Yorkshire: Wormald, Cooper, Snowden, Sykes (all Drighlington/Adwalton), Thackeray (Tong)
Warwickshire: Payne (Coleshill/Solihull), Forshaw (Coleshill), Drakeford (Coleshill)
Somerset: Quartley
NZ: Thompson (Dunedin)
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #172 on: Monday 29 August 05 10:54 BST (UK) »
I chose mine years ago for another message board.
Bbecause I wear a lot of red and black, it seemed logical
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Main names:
Scotland (Travellers) - Townsend/Townsley, Conway, Stewart
Lanark and Stirling - Jeffrey.
Northumberland/ Durham - Newton, Nixon, Sharp, Greaves, Naters
Warwickshire and London - Garfield.
Ireland, Co. Kerry - Marah/Meara/Mara, McClure, Howard, Melvin
Lincs - Smith, Vinter

other offshoots - Berry, Steven, Craig, Atkins, Fuller, , Stewart, Conway, Heather,

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #173 on: Monday 29 August 05 16:31 BST (UK) »
...as long as it doesn't bring you out in spots, ladybird  ;D
Barnett Altrincham/Manchester
Bates Hindley Lancs
Bowyer Altrincham Cheshire
Cunliffe Hindley
Hollingworth Hale Barnes/Mobberley Ches
Jones Salford/Altrincham
Ramsdale Hindley Lancs
Timperley Warburton/Dunham Massey
Yarwood Great Budworth,Lymm,Dumham Massey

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #174 on: Monday 29 August 05 16:59 BST (UK) »
First day at Senior School Biology teacher called me woodensue name was Sue Wood and it  stuck all through school ............ Could that be a form of todays bullying............ ps I'm 48 now!

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #175 on: Tuesday 06 September 05 19:49 BST (UK) »
Because I am a Man of Kent, as opposed to a Kentish Man.

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #176 on: Wednesday 07 September 05 09:58 BST (UK) »
Man of Kent,
Is that still a significant boundary marker? Do the young people of Kent still distinguish themselves by which side of the Medway they were born? Or dothey all hail from Kent these days?

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Jones, Mantle; Radnorshire
Russell, Stonehouse, Agar; Yorkshire/Durham
Brown, Fair; Durham,  
Little, Cumberland
Morris, Woolley, Owens; Montgomeryshire.

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #177 on: Wednesday 07 September 05 10:01 BST (UK) »
Yes still apply's though not a big deal.

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #178 on: Friday 23 September 05 12:37 BST (UK) »
I always use this name in all Forums I frequent.
It is because I live in the Cotswolds
Bailey (Norfolk, Yorkshire, New South Wales & Iowa)
Ralph (Norfolk & Suffolk)
Neep (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire & Victoria)
Ki/etteringham (Norfolk)
Bacon (Norfolk)
Jewson (Norfolk & Wisconsin)
Breeze (Norfolk & New York)
Sanders, Wells, Cooper, Downing, Phillips (Suffolk)
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Bartter (Kent, Hampshire & Ohio)
Drake & Mitchell (London)
Davies (Swansea)
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #179 on: Saturday 01 October 05 10:01 BST (UK) »
Hi all I used the KISS method  KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!!!
Thought I was being so clever "hiding" behind my boys name.  Ok I'll come out.  I am a female.

My nick names as a child were most unappealing.  (Mulley Grubs and Maggots) from Muller  and Dale Dale Big fat whale.  (I was 5 stone ringing wet.!!!!

Then a few years ago they had a childrens program on TV named you guessed it Mulley Grugs.  Bought back a lot of bad memories.
I scanned all the credits to see if someone was taking the mickey, but could not see any familiar names, otherwise their ears would still be ringing.  Cn any one top that for nick names???????
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