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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #189 on: Tuesday 14 March 17 12:09 GMT (UK) »
One of my lines is the County Durham Freak, Frieck, Freick, etc. name. I am sure the ladies with that name are glad to get married.

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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #190 on: Tuesday 14 March 17 13:14 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Sloe Gin on Tuesday 14 March 17 11:48 GMT (UK)
One might think that Mary SHITTLE might have looked forward to getting a new surname on marriage.
However, according to a marriage bond I found, she married John CRAP.

That would make a great double-barrelled surname ;D
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #191 on: Tuesday 14 March 17 16:28 GMT (UK) »
I was reminded of this news story....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7522952.stm
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #192 on: Tuesday 14 March 17 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #193 on: Wednesday 15 March 17 02:43 GMT (UK) »
Of course there is the world famous cricket commentary by Brian Johnston when England were playing the West Indies " The bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey"
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #194 on: Wednesday 15 March 17 04:20 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Redroger on Tuesday 14 March 17 16:56 GMT (UK)
Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.
And........his legacy lives on!    ;D
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #195 on: Wednesday 15 March 17 11:24 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Redroger on Tuesday 14 March 17 16:56 GMT (UK)
Depending on the date of marriage bond.Thomas Crapper lived from 1836-1910.

The one I quoted was Crap, not Crapper.  It was from 1716.
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #196 on: Wednesday 15 March 17 11:54 GMT (UK) »
A relative of mine, he may even be a direct rellie and remarried quite old was Matthias Eade who wed Elizabeth Pissey in Saxtead, Suffolk in 1743.
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Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past #2
« Reply #197 on: Thursday 16 March 17 14:32 GMT (UK) »
When I was a milkman, a Dutch couple on my round named their little girl Iona Marina which always made me smile, being a child of the '70s.
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