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Offline terry h

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 28 September 13 13:56 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Skoosh on Friday 27 September 13 14:59 BST (UK)
Galashiels was the last town in the Borders to get mains sewage. The natives were known as "Pailies" as they had were reputed to have a ring mark on their posteriors.

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Their full title is actually 'pail merks' (pail marks) for exactly the reasons you gave :o :o ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 28 September 13 14:36 BST (UK) »
Beats Skid Merks, Terry :)

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 28 September 13 14:55 BST (UK) »
liverpool  =  liverpudlians  = scousers
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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 28 September 13 15:11 BST (UK) »
People from Cheshire often refer to themselves as "Cheshire Cats".
Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 28 September 13 15:41 BST (UK) »
Quote from: PGC1962 on Saturday 28 September 13 13:23 BST (UK)
A friend from Sunderland claimed they were known as "Monkey Hangers", because during the Napoleonic wars there was a shipwreck and a monkey washed ashore.  Not knowing what it was they assumed it was a French spy & hanged it!

Monkey Hangers are from Hartlepool surely? Hence the football mascot who was elected mayor?
Skelcey (Skelsey Skelcy Skeley Shelsey Kelcy Skelcher) - Warks, Yorks, Lancs <br />Hancox - Warks<br />Green - Warks<br />Draper - Warks<br />Lynes - Warks<br />Hudson - Warks<br />Morris - Denbs Mont Salop <br />Davies - Cheshire, North Wales<br />Fellowes - Cheshire, Denbighshire<br />Owens - Cheshire/North Wales<br />Hicks - Cornwall<br />Lloyd and Jones (Mont)<br />Rhys/Rees (Mont)

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 28 September 13 15:50 BST (UK) »
Quote from: chris_49 on Saturday 28 September 13 15:41 BST (UK)
Quote from: PGC1962 on Saturday 28 September 13 13:23 BST (UK)
A friend from Sunderland claimed they were known as "Monkey Hangers", because during the Napoleonic wars there was a shipwreck and a monkey washed ashore.  Not knowing what it was they assumed it was a French spy & hanged it!

Monkey Hangers are from Hartlepool surely? Hence the football mascot who was elected mayor?

and Wearsiders (includes Sunderland) are surely Mackems? No idea why, but one relative had "Makamson" as a middle name!
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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 28 September 13 15:52 BST (UK) »
Oh, and people from Morecambe are Sand-grown-uns
 
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday 28 September 13 16:34 BST (UK) »
g grandfather Thomas Borthwick 11/11/1882 - KIA 25/9/1915 aged 33 Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Brothers & cousins to Thomas (Both KIA same day)
Robert Johnstone Borthwick 1898 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 21 North Staffordshire Regiment

George Lowden Borthwick 1899 - KIA 24/3/1918 aged 19 Royal Scots Fusiliers

gr Uncle Walter Combe b1893 - KIA 12/7/1915 aged 22  Kings Own Scottish Borderers

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Re: Why are people from __ called ___?
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 28 September 13 17:30 BST (UK) »
Can someone enlighten me?
I'm sure that I heard that "mackems"had their counterparts/rivals with another name on th eother side of the Tyne, but can't remember what it was...
I think mackems was something to do with the fact that goods were manufactured/made/macked   in the area?
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