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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #171 on: Tuesday 10 January 17 00:14 GMT (UK) »
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!

Molly,

I have a name very similar in my tree, female but surname is minus the 'on'

I kid you not  ;)

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #172 on: Tuesday 10 January 17 11:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!

Molly :'(
In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #173 on: Tuesday 10 January 17 12:52 GMT (UK) »
My sister is due to become Mrs Dickman when she gets married in April. We have an ancestor with the surname Titman. If only those families had met and gone double-barrelled! (My sister doesn't find this funny.)
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #174 on: Tuesday 10 January 17 13:30 GMT (UK) »
I know of a boy called Terry because his mother thought it appropriate. Her surname TOWEL
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #175 on: Thursday 02 February 17 08:02 GMT (UK) »
Great site, has kept a smile on my face for ages.
My uncle William Crompton Thompson married a Louise Talbot (now both deceased), nothing wrong with that but my parents used to enjoy telling people that a WC married a Loo.
However many years ago I had a client called Carey Hunt, oh boy you had to be careful how you said his name!!!!
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #176 on: Thursday 02 February 17 09:24 GMT (UK) »
My Mum's GP had the surname of Doctor" - so he of course was Dr. Doctor! 
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #177 on: Thursday 02 February 17 18:30 GMT (UK) »
I've always been glad none of my lot married into this family
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kildare/Morristownbiller/Cornelscourt/568051/
not that they weren't nice people, I knew some of their descendants back in the day and they were lovely but it must be one of the most difficult names to live with and not a name to just throw into google to see what turns up.

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #178 on: Friday 03 February 17 13:34 GMT (UK) »
I have a Hunt line in my family, lucky none of them were called Mike.  ;D

I did find an Ann Prick in my family tree recently. No rellies called Ivor luckily.
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #179 on: Sunday 05 February 17 11:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!

Molly :'(
In a similar vein I recently found someone called Minnie Cooper
And Terry Towelling (honest!)
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