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Offline Elliebob

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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #81 on: Wednesday 29 March 06 00:06 BST (UK) »
Nice to see your Mum back Gadget!  She looks lovely

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« Reply #82 on: Wednesday 29 March 06 00:10 BST (UK) »
Nice to see your Mum back Gadget!  She looks lovely

Ellen

Thanks Ellen. She's getting quite famous, bless her. She would have been so pleased with all the compliments :)
 
Her ancestors came from Kells, Parton & Balmaclellan, Kircudbright. Lovely names, lovely places. The last Farm was called Nether Dullarg. Now there's a name to conjure with ;D


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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #83 on: Wednesday 29 March 06 16:41 BST (UK) »
Whilst searching on the censuses I came across a place called Shite Haven!! Can't remember where it was though!
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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #84 on: Wednesday 29 March 06 21:32 BST (UK) »
According to the 1851 census, my Angus family were living at a place called Stickey female dog, near Darlington.

I have tried but can't locate it or anything like it to try to work out what it really should say!

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« Reply #85 on: Friday 31 March 06 20:45 BST (UK) »
I always liked Carlron Scroop in Lincolnshire, it sounded very painful.
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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #86 on: Friday 31 March 06 23:43 BST (UK) »
There's a place called Lover in Hampshire - people go there to post their valentines cards.

Anita
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Re: A place called what..!.!.!
« Reply #87 on: Saturday 01 April 06 20:36 BST (UK) »
I like these road signs for Dildo on the south eastern arm of Dildo in Newfoundland. It is about
a hundred kilometres west northnest of St Johns.  Residents of the town are known as Dildonians.

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« Reply #88 on: Saturday 01 April 06 22:49 BST (UK) »
There's a pub in Overton near Morecambe in Lancashire called "The Golden Ball".  Of course this is known locally as "The Brass Knacker".  Lovely little pub with the added attraction that it is often cut off at high tide, so plenty of out of hours drinking there!

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« Reply #89 on: Sunday 02 April 06 01:52 BST (UK) »
There's a place called Lover in Hampshire - people go there to post their valentines cards.

Anita

It's a long way from Tipperary to post a Valentine Card :D 
There's a place in Co. Antrim called BUCKNA

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