Names you have come across ...

[jbml]

Well, we've all got one or two interesting names in our trees ... but what about those you have come across who are NOT your ancestors??

My three favourites so far, in reverse order, are:

3. General Sir Denzil Onslow

2. Solomon Piggott

But out in the lead by a country mile, it absolutely HAS to be:

1. Murfin Blott

[Kay99]

I quite like one of mine -  Pease Mudd   

[777777]

I was in a graveyard as a teenager in Co. Wexford with my parents and grandmother looking for ancestors and relatives when I saw a gravestone that said "Alphonsus McMahon". I giggled and said, "Look, there's someone called Alphonsus McMahon!". Immediately my grandmother's face fell and she said, "I didn't know old Fonzo was dead!". I had of course forgotten that everyone knows everyone else in rural Irish villages. I think I just shouldn't ever speak in future! 

[Paul Caswell]

My favorite is Lilly Nellie Gibbins. Apart from the wonderful name it turned out that she died in Chelmsford in 1997 aged 100, just a few years before I moved there. She was the wife of my great granduncle George Speight who made a brush for my mother when she was married. I have the brush now.

[JonathanC]

I have two women named Fanny Crust (named Fanny on their birth certificate, not used as a shortform of Frances etc.) in my tree.  Always seems to cause some amusement among my American relatives (although I can't think why!):

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanny%20crust

[Gillg]

How about Queenie King?  Admittedly that was her married name and I think Queenie must have been a pet name, as I've not been able to find a matching marriage or death in that name.

[Annette7]

One that I came across that always stuck in my mind is 'Ethel Thistle'!!

Annette

[bradburyd]

I once had an American client called Sundance Wildfire.

[ThrelfallYorky]

"Nellie Winkle"!!