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Offline Evie

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Re: Daft names
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 29 March 09 23:44 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

My OH thought I'd finally lost it when I started to LOL to myself reading this thread. It reminded me of one that was married at the same time as my ancestor in Cheshire

Joseph Shatwell :o

No laxatives needed for him then ;D
Booth, Hornsby, Northumberland & Durham
Jackson, Northumberland & Durham
Douthwaite, N Yorks & Durham
Geldard, N Yorks
Ward, Cheshire & W Yorks
Swallow, Boid, W Yorks
Kirby, Lowe, Studholme, Geary, Emery, Baldock

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Re: Daft names
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 29 March 09 23:47 BST (UK) »
Did you know that a Sarah Smallass married John Watson in Norfolk, 1751. Wonder if she asked "Does my bum look big in this?"

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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: Daft names
« Reply #20 on: Monday 30 March 09 00:01 BST (UK) »
Came across this one the other day - more sad than daft though, since we immediately wonder if  the "b" stands for born.... :'(

Isabella Base B DICKINSON married  Jun Qtr 1893, Ulverston

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