Unfortunate surnames of the past #2

[Rufous Treecreeper]

Found Fanny Holder in burial records recently 

Mo

[Bilge]

I found......

Reverend Isaac Hunt.

b.1742 Barbados
d.1809 London

[Redroger]

I found......

Reverend Isaac Hunt.

b.1742 Barbados
d.1809 London

50 years ago I calculated the wages for a man of that name every week. He was from the West Indies strangely enough.

[Deb D]

This one's a more recent one; -

Expecting parents, none too bright, had just found out they were having a little girl.  Still excited, they were doing the household shopping when they found a product name on the shelves, and thought it sounded pretty ... so when she was born, they gave the child a name they pronounced as

"Kerraussinay"

The actual spelling on this poor little girl's BC is "Kerosene"

 

[GrahamSimons]

More recently (well, not very recently, readers will work out the approximate date as we go along) I heard tell of a boy whose mum took him to the village school to line him up for the recception class - "And what's your son's name?" Mum: "Seen." Teacher (a bit confused, hadn't met this name before, decides on subterfuge to find out more): "That's nice. Please could you pop in tomorrow with his birth certificate?"

So tomorrow comes, birth cert brought in by Mum, spelling of the name is Sean. Teacher, brightly: "And how did you choose that name?" Mum:"Well, there's Sean Connery in the Bond films and I really like him."

[Redroger]

My daughter once had a pupil whose forename was Lenin; the boy's mother told her he had been named after the Beetle who was murdered, i.e. John Lenin!!

[smudwhisk]

I recently had to create a corporate email account for a placement student from Korea, his "2nd" first name was "Bum", it did cause quite an amusement in our area and apparently in the department he was due to work in (as I double checked what was his family name).  Admittedly it isn't likely to have the same connotations in Korea, but it's a little unfortunate for him working over here.

[anpefa1]

just today i came across a woman with the name gotobed also is there really a michael hunt out there?

anonemouse

[Bilge]

Now here's a young lady from the 1871 Census with a few problems her name was  Fanny Whistler