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Offline kesannah

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 12 August 08 15:10 BST (UK) »
I have Martha INCEST in my family tree.
Hide/Hyde Kent,Sussex,West Ham
Beale/Burgess Sussex
Reed West Ham,East Ham London
Banks Seaford,Rottingdean Sussex
Koller Poplar London,Como Italy.
Checkley Northamptonshire.
Bentley Northamptonshire.West Ham,Poplar
Ridley Gatehead Durham Northumberland.
Poplar.Galt, Ontario, Canada
Corbyn Poplar,West Ham.Suffolk
Merritt Norwich.West ham
Watson Norwich,West Ham


Corbyn Fressingield Suffolk
Ridley.Galt Ontario

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 12 August 08 15:24 BST (UK) »
How did she climb up there?? ???
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 Leeves families. Kent and Sussex.
Baker family. Surrey.

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 03 October 10 01:48 BST (UK) »
hysterical!! we were complaining that our surnames were just too polular; things could be worse.

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 03 October 10 12:57 BST (UK) »
I'm sure i posted these on another thread somewhere.

on FBMD marriages 1853 a Nappy Farty (bet she was pleased to be getting wed)

also loads of William Quarterly's (quarterly bill)

my dad also used to tell me when he was young there was a sign on a shop that always made him laugh when he saw it (me too)
'Woodcocks For Dolls'

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Northumberland-Brown,Mitchell,Pattison,Clough,Gleghorn,Roseby,Sanderson,Southern,Elliott,Gray,Green,Dobson,Bell
Durham/Northumberland-Mellanby
Cornwall-Chenhall,Bodinner
Fife-Mitchell,Gourlay,Dryburgh

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 03 October 10 13:07 BST (UK) »
i came across fanny panting
neil
kenny from ireland befre moveing to north shields  flaxen/flexon from cumnor then sunderland robinson from rothbury then north shields urqhart somewhere in scotland then sunderland

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 03 October 10 16:06 BST (UK) »
Quote from: NEILKE on Sunday 03 October 10 13:07 BST (UK)
i came across fanny panting

You naughty boy.
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 03 October 10 16:22 BST (UK) »
hi sloe gin i like the boy bit lol
neil
kenny from ireland befre moveing to north shields  flaxen/flexon from cumnor then sunderland robinson from rothbury then north shields urqhart somewhere in scotland then sunderland

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 03 October 10 17:34 BST (UK) »
Fanny Burns.

Ouch.   :o

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Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
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Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 03 October 10 22:16 BST (UK) »
Not so much in the past but our local doctors were Crap, Clap and Whistle didn't go to them myself !!
Challinor= Cheshire,   Onions- Walsall Staffordshire,   Cliffe/Cliff Warrington Eckersley- Salford, Heathcote Windsor, Palin Cheshire/ Beeston
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