1881 Census:
Red Berry, Head, Male, 24, M, Worsted Scourer
Queen St., Gomersal, York
Oh, his poor, chapped hands! Do you think his parents saw it coming?
Remember "High Chaparral"? Unfortunately, there are two people in the 1881 Census with the forename, Blue - surnames Ridley and Mitchell, from the same part of Sussex - but one of them is a police constable!
Looking up Yellow as a forename resulted in two Yellow Wills and a Yellow Wheel - all Africans, all in the Royal Navy, all on different ships. One was a "krooman" (presumably reported by the "head of household" from West Ham). I'll leave Rootchatters to look these up themselves - each entry prompts so many questions... Fascinating.
Three Green Willows (darn it!), a Green Field, a Green Pickering (yuck) and a Green Greenwood. But the name Green Throup (Bingley) appeals. I've not come across the surname Throup before. There are loads of them. Is it pronounced Throwp?
How about Pink Brown in Margate?
Tara-Taraaaaa! Only one Indigo:
Idigo Rapley, a fruiterer in Chobham, Surrey. Does this score a point?
Brown Spray (yuck again), a Brown Recton (ahem) and, on the same lines as Tiny Slurd, a Brown Hird. There were 113 with Brown as a first name!
I did go out last night - honest.
Dimps
