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Re: Super fun name game
« Reply #72 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 12:10 GMT (UK) »
corporal james godbold
harry private
sargeant suckling
sargeant grimwood
colonel constable
major crook
major birtwhistle
captain pickles
captain cook

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« Reply #73 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 12:14 GMT (UK) »
I satrted looking up Army titles as first names last night - but I missed Major Crook! Ha!  :P
Vanderkist; London and beyond!
Doe; Suffolk
Hunt; Surrey, London
Reeves; Croydon, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire
Porrett: England, Yorkshire, London
Ward; Croydon, Wiltshire
Batchelor; Croydon, Brighton
Ellis; Croydon, Dorset, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire
MacPherson; Scotland
Wills; Cornwall
Taylor; Suffolk
Aldous; Suffolk
Poll; Suffolk
Gathercoal; Suffolk

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« Reply #74 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 12:31 GMT (UK) »
I followed up Tenth Cowling - he was the twelfth child of George and Elizabeth, but the tenth son. Obviously they had run out of boys' names by the time they got to him.
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« Reply #75 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 13:18 GMT (UK) »
hi fenifer. i looked up a few things last night or should i say this morning but a certain person (groom) :P  beat me to the numbers  ::) my searches are getting more perverse it seems.
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bossy sheppard
boss hopkins
bustin bustin
busty white

duke scutt
earl standing
lord maria skipper
ladyman milligan

nelson nelson
admiral nelson
darwin horatio scott
cook pitchfork


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« Reply #76 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 13:37 GMT (UK) »
I started on sports:

Bat Ashton
Ball Brimson
Bail Gee
Hockey Nicholls
Rugby Cale
Swim A Roys
Archer Abbey
Arrow Livine
Bow Clisby
Shot Lewes
Kick O'Leary
Try Clayton
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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« Reply #77 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 15:02 GMT (UK) »
Bastard Bull
Bruiser DT mfrey
Shiner Hind
Phoney Kingdom
Floosy Taylor
Floosy Thyer
BROWNING - Kent
DEARING - Kent
FOORD - Kent and Essex
GARRITY - Kent and Essex
GIBBS - Kent
HARE - Essex
JENNINGS - Essex
KEMPTON - Kent
PERKINS - Kent
PETTIT - Suffolk and Essex
RICHARDS - Kent
SIMMONS - Kent
THOMPSON - Suffolk

CLAYDON - NSW,AUSTRALIA

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« Reply #78 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 16:27 GMT (UK) »
Surrey Bumstead
Sussex Holland Bevan
Kent Porteous Sumby
Somerset Snowden
Devon Augustus Thynne
Cornwall Cooke
Hampshire Walker
Oxford Popham Pitt

England Fry Andrews
Wales Gathercole
Ireland Sophia Du Chateau

No Scotlands though  ;D
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« Reply #79 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 17:58 GMT (UK) »
No worries Groom, I found a Scotland yesterday on births!

From todays stationary drawer....

Henrietta Glue
Meta Olive Stick
Tripherna A Tape
Isidore L Tack
Rigas Constantine Pin
Worthy James Gale Glue
Rodney C Rubber
Martha Light Pen
Thomas Pencil
Treofila Paper
Hutchinson - Nottingham.
Rowland - Nottingham.
Parkin - Co Durham/Nottingham.
Gardiner/Gardner/Gardener - Co Durham.
Drake - Derbyshire/Lincolnshire/Sussex/London?
Leighton - Derbyshire.

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« Reply #80 on: Tuesday 28 February 12 18:28 GMT (UK) »
finch e cackett
linnet tamar latcham
wren avery
sparrow harling
starling manning warner
swan swift
swift walker
swallow jubb      :o
swallow moreman    :o :o :o
dove crisp
eagle rutter
hawk brook