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Offline Rishile

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 12 September 11 19:47 BST (UK) »
I have a woman in my tree was originally Fanny Swain.  Then she married Albert Pocock.

Hmm - I think I would have thought twice about marrying him if I were her.

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 18 September 11 15:00 BST (UK) »
Some years ago I was listening to a Registrar on the wireless who claimed to collect the unusual names he was presented with registering. One I recall was that he tried to persuade a Mr & Mrs Enis from calling their son Peter. Apart from that there was a Mr & Mrs Pipe who insisted in calling their son Dwaine and, whist relating this at the office, one of the girls claimed to have been at school with a girl called Annette Curtain - so much for your aunt Fanny!

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 18 September 11 15:32 BST (UK) »
Have you seen this book.....Potty,Fartwell and Knobs by Russell Ash.Published in 2007 it is an hilarious collection of extraordinary but true names of British people .Thereare nearly 300pages of them arranged under various headings.Itsdifficult to pick out just a few but here goes
Not WantedJames colville bLondon1861
Loo Loo b 1877 d 1904
Low Fat m Cardiff 1905
Margarine Fryer female b 1831
Margaret Coffee Maxwell b 1893
Driver Bus b1879 Leeds
Ellen Fanny Cockaday b 1880
Some are very unfortunate in their pronunciation and some are very rude and I will not put them down here.
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Mann Ringrose Prior( West London)Prior (Halstead Colchester and Sudbury)Ringrose (Northants) Clark(sussex  Bath)Light(Shropshire West London)Barber(Northants)Gaudern (Northants)Piper(Suffolk)Carter (Essex)Nightingale,Stiles,Dunk,Hedgecock(Kent)Mann(south Devon )Le Cronier,Le Quesne,Poingdestre,Esnouf,Le Guyt,Anley.Le Carteret(Jersey)Clark(Bath,Batcombe,and Nyland )
er(essex)Nightingale(kent Sussex)Sutton (sussex)

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 18 September 11 15:36 BST (UK) »
I saw record for a lady named    Ima Bigass.
Don't know if she ever married.
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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 19 September 11 17:36 BST (UK) »
I saw record for a lady named    Ima Bigass.
Don't know if she ever married.

If not, I'm sure it wasn't for the want of trying!  ;D
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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 20 September 11 11:00 BST (UK) »
My aunt courted a Mr Crapp, but he refused to change his name if they married, so she married a plain Mr Smith instead.

Somebody searching my tree [who found they had no connection] had in their tree a Bugg marrying a Flye, [still makes me chuckle]
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 21 September 11 18:06 BST (UK) »
I saw record for a lady named    Ima Bigass.
Don't know if she ever married.

If not, I'm sure it wasn't for the want of trying!  ;D

........and wouldn't it have been marvellous if she'd married a Mr. Smallbottom  ;)
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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 21 September 11 19:54 BST (UK) »
During some transcribing of some parish records today I found - Grafton Willey.

Poor lad - in more ways than one.

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Re: Unfortunate names found in family trees?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 21 September 11 20:13 BST (UK) »
I have a Queenie Elizabeth who married a man named Goldwin, but everyone apparently called him Goldie. So Queenie and Goldie is how they were known.  ::)

BTW, Queenie had a brother named King.

What were their parents thinking?  ??? ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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