Funniest names in family history

[lesleyp1964]

My partners gg gm is fanny sweet...hee hee

[MrsLizzy]

My grandfather, so I'm told, was extremely sensitive about his middle name: Percy.  He used to beat people up for laughing at it.  I must say it's not the most rib-tickling name I've ever heard.  What gives me a giggle is terrifically impressive names given to babies:  an uncle back in about 1901 was named Percy Dundonald Wade.  For some reason when I first came across him in the census I fell about laughing.   

[Ecneps]

I've just transcribed today (for freebmd) - Clarendon Square - his name, not his address 

Barbara

[sueky71]

looking through the 1881 census i came across one lady whose place of birth was - flowery field, cheshire!
i wonder if was literally

[MrsLizzy]

Perhaps your ancestor's mother was a hippy girl ahead of her time!  It reminds me of a scene in a film - all I can remember is the middle aged female character coming across a young couple in the woods in falling snow, where the pregnant wife was lying down in the snow in the throes of labour.  She was played by the actress who was Mary Ellen Walton in The Waltons (I miss that!)

On being chided for not staying in the warm and dry so near her time, the mother explained "We didn't want our baby to be born in captivity."  So they thought they'd have it in the middle of a snowstorm, just to bolster its chances of survival, obviously! 

[Brambletye]

For a good read and a list of places not to live, try "The Deeper Meaning of Liff - A dictionary of things there aren't any words for yet", by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd.

Place names, taken down off the signposts and given a new role in life - can't say I'd fancy living in Wormelow Tump.

It sounds like something your kid would be sent home from school for having (a) growing on the side of his neck (b) somewhere in the bottom of his trouser pockets (c) under his fingernails (d) perm any two from three...

[bearkat]

I recently came across a Pastwater JESSUP.

I wonder what the origins of his first name were?

[miss marple]

There's a place in Kent called Pratt's Bottom.
Imagine saying you come from there

Betty

You think that's bad? In Dorset we have Scratchy Bottom. And it's not that far from a place called Sandy Balls. Well, I suppose sandy balls could well lead on to a scratchy bottom....

[Bevynel]

I have a John George Tudor Ullock as far as I know they didn't have any children so little !!!!!!!!'s around