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Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« on: Monday 12 September 11 13:46 BST (UK) »
Hiya, this is just me wanting to share my horrified but slightly bemusing find of my great great great grandmother's name and not being able to google it to see if there is anything without finding contents of an adult nature!
She was Fanny Suckling living at 2 Richmond Terrace, Salford, Lancashire in 1888.

It makes you think about what names they might have sniggered at in the 1800's as against what we snigger at now!

What unfortunate and interesting names do you have in your trees?
Samson - Kent
Chater - London Area
Bultitude - London & Norfolk
Pounder / Smith / Lynch - Manchester & Salford & Ireland
Richards - Bridgend / Wales
Watkins - Glamorgan / Wales

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 12 September 11 14:21 BST (UK) »
My dad had an Aunt Fanny and Uncle Dick  :-[
Too many to list! But always particularly interested in my eight ggp lines : ALLEN, HODGKINSON, FLINT, SWINDELL, SHELDON, BINGHAM, JACKSON - all in Derbyshire; and ELLWOOD in Cambridgeshire

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 12 September 11 14:24 BST (UK) »
I have a Pleasant Pain(e)! Could also be a problem when Googling lol. Chrisann
(Staple, Ash next Sandwich, Chillenden, Eastry, Alkham, Shepherdswell) Knowler, Whitnall/Witnal, Laws, Rigden. (Ramsgate, St Lawrence, St Peter, Minster in Thanet, Garlinge)  Lawrence, Spel(l)man/Spillman, Baker, Collins, Cock

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 12 September 11 15:47 BST (UK) »
ok this isnt a unfortunate names but i have to share and if you are offended easily then dont read lol


my husbands aunty had husband and wife neighbours for years, they were very close and my husband spent as much time at the neighbours and his did his aunties. the gentleman was called cliff and the wife was kit. only my husband had trouble refering to them as kit and cliff and instead always called them kiff and c**!  :o :o :-[
Ralph. Lever. Young. Lasham. Denigan. Sawyer. Moore. Stone

saville foljambe moore


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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 12 September 11 15:53 BST (UK) »
yes that is funny. but then I am a bit childish...
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Samson - Kent
Chater - London Area
Bultitude - London & Norfolk
Pounder / Smith / Lynch - Manchester & Salford & Ireland
Richards - Bridgend / Wales
Watkins - Glamorgan / Wales

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 12 September 11 15:58 BST (UK) »
I think they are funny too!
I have ancestors called Fanny and Willy! Husband and wife!
Millson & Johnson - Bradfield, Berks.  Vine & Butcher - Norfolk. Haines & Collier - Oxfordshire/Berkshire. Duffin & Wynn - Tilehurst, Berkshire

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 12 September 11 17:03 BST (UK) »
Fanny Burns  :o
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
Hayden
Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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« Reply #7 on: Monday 12 September 11 17:06 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #8 on: Monday 12 September 11 18:14 BST (UK) »
I'm now cleaning the coffee out of my keyboard which got spat out as I laughed reading that one!  ;D
Samson - Kent
Chater - London Area
Bultitude - London & Norfolk
Pounder / Smith / Lynch - Manchester & Salford & Ireland
Richards - Bridgend / Wales
Watkins - Glamorgan / Wales