Super fun name game

[fastfusion]

road in Brisbane called Waterworks Road...........

so when u ask where the suburb is , called "The Gap"....

some smartie might reply : "Shes got legs as long as Waterworks Road, they lead all the way to the gap...."

but not only are they trying to discribe a tall lass when long legs they is unfortunately trying to give directions.................

 

[Gone]

funnily enough, I've been tracing a line in my family and found several generations with the surname Eggs. lots of interesting things have come to light about them including one who broke into a house near Southampton and stole some bacon, George Eggs stealing bacon? must have been breakfast time. Another "bad Eggs" (William) was quite violent by the sound of it but the two I found relating to easter perhaps, Minnie Eggs and a later generation Minnie E Eggs. 
Griff

[fastfusion]

just as long as one of the cousins of the eggs aint toast

 

[copperbeech5]

He wasn't a soldier was he by any chance?!

[Gone]

William Eggs, b 1827 was a cabman, that's when he wasn't fighing or stealing. He sounds like a real thug  luckily it seem most of the rest were good Eggs

[copperbeech5]

Ha ha, glad to see you are on your usual form h-g!!

[Gone]

Thank you CB,
just to add a little story I found about John Eggs who I have been looking into.
I found an article written by a jp about Christchurch in the early 1800's where John was born and it made me laugh somewhat. about a shop keeper named Cusse who sent a man he employed named John Eggs to get some goods from the store with a candle to light his way. when he returned he was asked where the candle was, "stuck it into a cask of rape seed" he repied. Cusse left the buidling and ran a long way away in a hurry as he knew the barrel actually contained gunpowder. John Eggs just went and retrieved the candle, safely.
Phew!!! scambled eggs came to mind. a true story by the looks of it 

[Wharfrat]

I know this is an old thread, but I just came across a 1722 marriage in the Quaker registers for a lady with the delightful moniker of Comfort Pigg.

[Rishile]

I have just found a wonderful name

Bocking Froggatt 

Fancy going through life with a name like that.

Rishile