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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #54 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:02 GMT (UK) »
English/P.E. teacher at my son's school a few years ago was Dick Painter. Imagine the fun they had.
London - Wichett, GRAN, Pelton,Allen,Heath,Webb,Hooker, BARHAM, Rimes, Smith, Player, Cheesman, Salmon, Strong
Hampshire - Coles, Bone
Suffolk - Webb, Gault
Carlisle - Strong, Donaldson, Bennett

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #55 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:09 GMT (UK) »
My mum found the name "Fanny Robbins" Hilarious.....  ;D

Also, I found the name "Hockhead" but it was mistranscribe.

I'll let you use your imagination with that one.


And without being too rude, my RE teacher was called Ophelia,

and she married a Mr. Kok.

I aint saying NUTHIN!
Norfolk: Chapman, Berry, Jarvis, Seymour, Bennett, Lambert, Harrison, Theobald, Eggleton, Studwell, Griggs, Chapman, Berry, Pearman, Largen, Largent, Hillson, Secker, Blowers, Stringer, Cooke<br />Suffolk: Berry, Bury, Elger, Alger<br />Essex: Fuller<br />Hertfordshire: Fuller, Filler, Blackaby, Gibbs<br />Cambridgeshire: Bouch, Savage,<br />Huntingdonshire: Savage<br />Lincolnshire: Graves, Whiley, Pearson, Allen, Randall<br />Northamptonshire: Green<br />Middlesex: Oakley, Secker

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #56 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:26 GMT (UK) »
I wonder how many families by the name of Head had a Richard in them?   ::)  .....dee



I did go to college with a guy named Richard Head.....

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #57 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:34 GMT (UK) »
Ok, I can't resist sharing this one any longer & I hope I don't get into trouble for this...

From a census search on Ancestry...trust me it's there;

Fanny Damp  :o
BOXALL    Portchester & Southampton<br />CLASBY    Southampton<br />HELLYER   Hound, Netley & Southampton<br />MIDLANE   Isle Of Wight<br />PHILLIPS   Botley & Southampton<br />PRICE       Isle Of Wight<br />VERONELLI/VEARONELLY/VERONELLY & variants ANY<br />WAREN     London<br />WINTER    S.E. London


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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #58 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:53 GMT (UK) »
 :o  :o  :o Well you wouldn't get away with that one, on that notorious 'other side'  :o  :o  :o
Good old RootsChat, we can still have a laugh on here, and let's face it, after all the hair tearing, chasing the ancestors, sometimes you need a laugh.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #59 on: Sunday 03 December 06 14:06 GMT (UK) »
:o  :o  :o Well you wouldn't get away with that one, on that notorious 'other side'  :o  :o  :o
Good old RootsChat, we can still have a laugh on here, and let's face it, after all the hair tearing, chasing the ancestors, sometimes you need a laugh.


Laugh?  I blushed when I typed it & then blushed even more when I posted it  ;D :-[ ;D :-[ ;D :-[
BOXALL    Portchester & Southampton<br />CLASBY    Southampton<br />HELLYER   Hound, Netley & Southampton<br />MIDLANE   Isle Of Wight<br />PHILLIPS   Botley & Southampton<br />PRICE       Isle Of Wight<br />VERONELLI/VEARONELLY/VERONELLY & variants ANY<br />WAREN     London<br />WINTER    S.E. London

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #60 on: Sunday 03 December 06 14:17 GMT (UK) »
Whats "The other side"?

Norfolk: Chapman, Berry, Jarvis, Seymour, Bennett, Lambert, Harrison, Theobald, Eggleton, Studwell, Griggs, Chapman, Berry, Pearman, Largen, Largent, Hillson, Secker, Blowers, Stringer, Cooke<br />Suffolk: Berry, Bury, Elger, Alger<br />Essex: Fuller<br />Hertfordshire: Fuller, Filler, Blackaby, Gibbs<br />Cambridgeshire: Bouch, Savage,<br />Huntingdonshire: Savage<br />Lincolnshire: Graves, Whiley, Pearson, Allen, Randall<br />Northamptonshire: Green<br />Middlesex: Oakley, Secker

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Re: Rude family names!
« Reply #61 on: Sunday 03 December 06 14:28 GMT (UK) »
Apart from the five Fanny Buggs ;D in my tree ,I had the maiden name of Pratt.
I used to attend Sea Cadets and three of us GNTC's used to always team up together to do anything ,our names were........Lin Pratt ,Sharon Bullocks and Susan Balls . Our instucters had to refer to us by our surnames .great fun at HMS Ganges when they would shout at us.
 ;D ;D ;D
..........and it still goes on as my poor niece has the initial A Pratt
Pratt ,Burgess,Gladwell  ,Taylor, Forrester ,Layzell ,Watling ,Merryfield Raven Essex
Field ,Warren.Davis, Spickett ,Peppiatt ,Bucks
White born Dorset moved to Hampshire,Shropshire and finally to Essex
Katherine Murphy b1872 
Buggs ,Day ,Stygal,Balls ,Suffolk ,Norfolk ,Hertfordshire
Venables ,Hertfordshire

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« Reply #62 on: Sunday 03 December 06 14:30 GMT (UK) »
Oh ,forgot to mention ,Fanny had a brother called William (fondly known as Uncle Willy) :D
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Pratt ,Burgess,Gladwell  ,Taylor, Forrester ,Layzell ,Watling ,Merryfield Raven Essex
Field ,Warren.Davis, Spickett ,Peppiatt ,Bucks
White born Dorset moved to Hampshire,Shropshire and finally to Essex
Katherine Murphy b1872 
Buggs ,Day ,Stygal,Balls ,Suffolk ,Norfolk ,Hertfordshire
Venables ,Hertfordshire