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Offline Jean McGurn

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Re: Named after a world event
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 12 June 07 15:25 BST (UK) »
This thread has given me an idea. I have two ancestors that have unusual middle names (George JONES McGurn and John Robert PASHON Harris) so I wonder if there is a famous Jones or Pashon for the years they were born.

Me? Apparently I was names after two nurses in the maternity hospital where I was born. Oh well

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Re: Named after a world event
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 12 June 07 15:39 BST (UK) »
We have a female  in the family who has the middle name Victory, given to her when Victory was declared in WW2.....
Leics-Sharp/Baker/Underwood
Marylebone-Osborne/Tod(d)
Herts- Sear, Cato
Bucks/ Beds-Impey/Field/Hall
Herefordshire-Smallman
Glos-Poole/Byard/Smallman
Middx-Kemp/Harris/Perrin/Lee/Cooper/Morrell
Middx-Ballard
Berks-Ballard
Wilts-Ballard
Hammersmith, Middx-Cranstone
Surrey/Middx-Jux
Villemagne, France- Perrin
Dunning, Perthshire-Tod/Niven
Dorset- Tod/d
Milner- Neenton, Shropshire
Edwards- Neenton, Shropshire
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Re: Named after a world event
« Reply #20 on: Monday 02 July 07 22:16 BST (UK) »
It could have been worse! Being a child from 1979, I could have been called 'Thatcher'!

Luckily, the gods were smiling on me that day, and it was averted.
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Named after a world event
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 03 July 07 00:52 BST (UK) »
I was named after Pamela Barton  -  a British lady golfer who won the French open in 1934 at age 17.
She died, aged 26, in 1943 in an air crash while serving her country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Barton

My Dad had always said that I was born with a golf club in my mouth!!!

Not true.......I couldn't hit a golf ball if you paid me!...but....I do enjoy the 19th hole
 :P :P :P :P
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Re: Named after a world event
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 03 July 07 08:09 BST (UK) »
I was named  Anthony, after   Anthony Eden, and my pal next door was named Neville, after Chamberlain, not sure if either of us considered it a bonus, but i do know both our fathers were strong Labour supporters ?
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Lockett/ Manchester, Harling/ Lancaster & Manchester
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