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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #162 on: Monday 07 January 13 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Two children of the same family- Anna and Faletic . Surname Shokk
Crowhurst:Brooker:Brinkhurst:Turner

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #163 on: Tuesday 08 January 13 20:23 GMT (UK) »
I once had to call a gentleman to an interview room and had to keep a straight face as his first name was Biggles ..... others in his family were  .... Hericopter and Hurricane .............

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Derbys - BLOOD, CHADDOCK, DAKIN, GREGSON, HARDY, HUNT LATHBURY, MANSFIELD, PAKEMAN, RILEY, SALES, TOWLE, TURNER, YATES, WOOLEY
Staffs - PAKEMAN
Notts - CHALLAND, INGER, MORLEY,MOSELY, SHEPHERD
Huddersfield - CHALLAND,HAIGH,
Harwich, Essex - PITCHER
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #164 on: Wednesday 09 January 13 23:19 GMT (UK) »
My Grandmothers maiden name
F**ny Wragg
it didn't occur to me until someone laughed
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Kay, wragg, Nightingale, Lawrence, Warren,Hurt,Prince, Smith/Smythe
Kent,Derbyshire,Warwickshire,lincolnshire,
Staffordshire,London

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #165 on: Thursday 10 January 13 19:54 GMT (UK) »
I worked with a man who had been adopted as a child from Mexico ..... his first name was Juan and his adoptive surname was .... I kid you not ...... Inche.

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Derbys - BLOOD, CHADDOCK, DAKIN, GREGSON, HARDY, HUNT LATHBURY, MANSFIELD, PAKEMAN, RILEY, SALES, TOWLE, TURNER, YATES, WOOLEY
Staffs - PAKEMAN
Notts - CHALLAND, INGER, MORLEY,MOSELY, SHEPHERD
Huddersfield - CHALLAND,HAIGH,
Harwich, Essex - PITCHER
Yorks - HAIGH


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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #166 on: Thursday 31 January 13 22:12 GMT (UK) »
My maiden surname was Crackles.

I learned to fight at school from an early age  ;)

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #167 on: Monday 09 January 17 06:39 GMT (UK) »
My maiden name was LOVELADY.   I was always proud of it. 
My Dad was Richard Lovelady called Dick
My Brother was also Richard.
When working together on a building site they were known as Big Dick and Little Dick.

True story.

Incidentally, I married a Philpott

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #168 on: Monday 09 January 17 23:38 GMT (UK) »
Some real howlers on here....and laugh out load moments....brings to mind a time many years ago when I was helping out at the golf club when someone asked me to go into the clubhouse and ask if anyone had seen Mike Hunt  :o

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #169 on: Monday 09 January 17 23:43 GMT (UK) »
Carol, I'm sure no one had seen him  ;) ;D ;D
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Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
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Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #170 on: Monday 09 January 17 23:51 GMT (UK) »
I can still feel my cheeks burn when I remember the responses I got ;D ;D
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