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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #144 on: Thursday 25 October 12 12:11 BST (UK) »
I know one anonemouse :o ;D. I always call him Michael ;D
Dowdell, Pressley, Snook, Read, Hurle, Small, Cannings .....  Wiltshire
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Jones ..... N Wales

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #145 on: Friday 26 October 12 04:43 BST (UK) »
I have just found a 1901 Census entry while looking for a distant relative.

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Clara Sullivan 22
Willie Dick :o
Vincent Dea 3

Why do parents do this?
Ferguson, Stockton-on-Tees
Hollinshead, Stafford/Guisborough
Pratt, Berwick/Newcastle-upon-Tyne
McDonald, Teesdale
Charlton, Hexham
Carlyle, Hexham/Annan Dumfries

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #146 on: Friday 26 October 12 13:53 BST (UK) »
also is there really a michael hunt out there?

anonemouse


Yes ,he sells used cars here in Brisbane. It is a genuine used car dealership:
( warning -don't watch below link if easily offended)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9bSjMejdo
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #147 on: Friday 26 October 12 19:05 BST (UK) »
This thread referred earlier to an Isaac Hunt a minister in the West Indies. I calculated the wages for an Isaac Hunt when I worked in a railway payroll section 50 years ago.,
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #148 on: Friday 26 October 12 21:49 BST (UK) »
This thread referred earlier to an Isaac Hunt a minister in the West Indies. I calculated the wages for an Isaac Hunt when I worked in a railway payroll section 50 years ago.,

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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.


Your repeating yourself Redroger.


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« Reply #149 on: Sunday 28 October 12 18:33 GMT (UK) »
The repetition was deliberate to ensure the current reader had access to it!!   ;)
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« Reply #150 on: Tuesday 18 December 12 20:24 GMT (UK) »
Though so far as I know the following is ficticious, the surname given and the address certainly exist:

Mr and Mrs. Weedon, Pi**y Bush Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster  ;)
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #151 on: Wednesday 19 December 12 11:38 GMT (UK) »
A little more innocuous, Policemen named PC Bobby (Warwickshire) and Sergeant Sargent (Staffs).
CORDEN - N.Staffs/N.Warwicks
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HIGGS - N. Warwicks
DEEMING - N.Warwicks
LEWIS - N.Warwicks

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #152 on: Friday 28 December 12 14:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi
How about a baby boy called Harley (surname is Davison)
I kid you not!

Molly :'(
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