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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #54 on: Saturday 25 February 12 13:09 GMT (UK) »
With the rugby about to start, thought I'd have a look:

Hooker Clarke
Hooker Rose
Fly Burt
Fly Thornham
Halfyard Halfyard
Half Howcutt
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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #55 on: Saturday 25 February 12 14:54 GMT (UK) »
I have two (real, though deceased) distant cousins called

Lyle Brackenridge Tonks
and
James Brackenridge Tonks.
Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex

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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #56 on: Saturday 25 February 12 16:47 GMT (UK) »
Apparently Ottawa has a competition known as CORA Skating.

I've always wanted to write a humorous bagatelle featuring a heroine named Cora Skeating-Witte.
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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #57 on: Sunday 26 February 12 14:44 GMT (UK) »
Random words, you say?

There's a
Random L Greenway (birth 1954)
Word Berg (marriage 1959)

Let's try some farm animals:

Cow Dow (marriage 1858)
Piggy Hart (birth 1852)
Pigbone Woodbridge (birth 1855)
Goat Barrett (birth 1838)
Cattle Kirby (death 1871)
Donkey Calder (birth 1926)
Horse Trist (death 1877)
Pony Aston (birth 1896)
Ass Gill (marriage 1871)
Mule Pember (birth 1837)

 ;D
DILLWYN - Glamorgan, Brecon & Pennsylvania
NICHOLL - Glamorgan
WELBOURN - Lincolnshire, Canada, Australia
GILBERTSON - Glamorgan, Herts.
MORRIS - Kent
EATON - Dorset
APPLEYARD - Yorkshire
HART - Northants, Kent
FARMER - Worcs
STOKES - Cambs, Northants.
McLATCHIE - Renfrew
CHAPMAN - Kent
ROSE - SE London
JOYNER - Dorset
POWELL - Worcs.
LEACH - Pembs
CHATFIELD - Sussex
WESTON - Wapping/Walthamstow
NICHOLLS - Queenhithe, London


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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #58 on: Sunday 26 February 12 14:47 GMT (UK) »
Mule Pember (birth 1837)

That's some reputation to live up to?! :o ;D
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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #59 on: Monday 27 February 12 16:27 GMT (UK) »
Searching woldwide collections, can't believe theres so many people called Donkey !
my favorite,

Donkey Curry  born 1865 south carolina

back in the uk,

Sugar Bird 1928-2002
Sugar Block 1928-2005

Butter Adams 1838

Bread Smith 1847

Flour Alley married 1860

Minnie Mouse Mollinson 1859
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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #60 on: Monday 27 February 12 18:52 GMT (UK) »
Donkey Curry  born 1865 south carolina
;D ;D ;D

For the mathematicians:

Circle Lazarus
Oval Henry Winterflood
Square Hemingway

and the astronomers:

Orbit Osborne
Jupiter Pilgrim
Venus Venables
Neptune Pike

LANCS:  Greenwood, Greenhalgh, Fishwick, Berry,
CHES/DERBYS:  Vernon
YORKS/LINCS: Watson, Stamford, Bartholomew,
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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #61 on: Monday 27 February 12 19:41 GMT (UK) »
A FEW ODDS AND BODS

sucker litman pregaman
kissey inwards
smiles roche
grindle ragg
gentle fox millhouse
honest bardoe   ::) (yeah right)
nightly stanley r loosemore
day porter
fire broadhead rollinson
water bush batt
water spittle danks
airs annbirch chegwidden
earthly emma bailey


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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #62 on: Monday 27 February 12 20:37 GMT (UK) »

A couple more odds and bods.

Comfort Chitty
Darttrue Holland
Hempseed Barrass
Footit Evison
Legenaral Harry Martin
Mountstuart Elphinstone McDonell
Moulds Popple Curtis
Candler Candler
Bramwell -  Derbyshire and Bolton
Pottinger -  Gloucestershire, Berkshire
James- Gloucestershire
Rawley, Wheeler - Middlesex
Nicholls, Nichols -  Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire
Lee, Porter - Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire
Bowers, Coxall, Coe, Dawkins, Hawkins, Horspoole, Rule - Cambridgeshire
Stoughton - Bedfordshire
Stewart - Stirlingshire,  Glasgow and Edingburgh
Tulloch - Orkney Islands
Liddell - Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire
Tulloch, Wilson, Stevenson, Baxter, Muir, Boag - Scotland