Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?

[jillruss]

None whatsoever!
I never judge people by what they are called

For every person of a surname you don't like, there are sure to be others you do like?
E.G. Thatcher to me means a cider producer of Somerset!

How charitable you are!

I know its very, very silly of me but I wouldn't even buy Thatchers cider! And I do like a glass of cider in the summer...

[KGarrad]

None whatsoever!
I never judge people by what they are called

For every person of a surname you don't like, there are sure to be others you do like?
E.G. Thatcher to me means a cider producer of Somerset!

How charitable you are!

I know its very, very silly of me but I wouldn't even buy Thatchers cider! And I do like a glass of cider in the summer...

To be honest - that's just plain silly!
The Thatcher family of Sandford, have been making cider for over 100 years.
As far as I know there is no link to the family of a grocer's daughter - who was born a Roberts anyway.

[Ayashi]

For every person of a surname you don't like, there are sure to be others you do like?
E.G. Thatcher to me means a cider producer of Somerset!

Indeed! My Brady family is one of my favourite sides of my tree, I've never even mentally linked it to the murderer beyond "that person has the same surname". I'd happily have a Thatcher or a Saville or a Trump, because whatever else they are, they are my ancestors, not some modern unpopular individual. I'd even have a Hitler without judging them, because they were more than likely some poor labourer or coal miner or farmer without any thoughts of genocide whatsoever. That's not to say I wouldn't make jokes about it though.

That said, I do wonder how many of my ancestors were raving bigots, racists, misogynistic etc... Bound to be a few, eh? Nobody's tree is going to be 100% angel.

[Beeonthebay]

No, although I sigh a little whenever I find out that Joe Bloggs married Ann Smith, which is most of my tree really. I'd like a few more unusual surnames around the place...

Me too, I have Brown on both sides and all with the same few christian names to boot.  Thomas, John, William, Elizabeth,  Mary, Ann etc, it gets very confusing at times.  ; I almost did a cartwheel when I found a Caroline Blanch the other day 

[jillruss]

None whatsoever!
I never judge people by what they are called

For every person of a surname you don't like, there are sure to be others you do like?
E.G. Thatcher to me means a cider producer of Somerset!

How charitable you are!

I know its very, very silly of me but I wouldn't even buy Thatchers cider! And I do like a glass of cider in the summer...

To be honest - that's just plain silly!
The Thatcher family of Sandford, have been making cider for over 100 years.
As far as I know there is no link to the family of a grocer's daughter - who was born a Roberts anyway.

Oh, for goodness sake, this was supposed to be fun!

I did own up to it being trivial and silly - and other similar adjectives!    All this 'don't judge' stuff is a bit misplaced, if you don't mind me saying so....its a bit like not calling one of your children a name you associate with someone you dislike.

I have Saviles centuries back in W Yorks - tentatively linked - and it had honestly never crossed my mind.

[jim1]

This is the lighter side folks.

[youngtug]

The problem arises when someone's name is one that everyone seems to have an aversion to,

[3sillydogs]

No, although I sigh a little whenever I find out that Joe Bloggs married Ann Smith, which is most of my tree really. I'd like a few more unusual surnames around the place...

Me too, I have Brown on both sides and all with the same few christian names to boot.  Thomas, John, William, Elizabeth,  Mary, Ann etc, it gets very confusing at times.  ; I almost did a cartwheel when I found a Caroline Blanch the other day 

Doesn't it make your head spin, I get myself so confused at times I don't know who's who.  It's almost like they had a list that they could choose from...................

[eadaoin]

Doesn't it make your head spin, I get myself so confused at times I don't know who's who.  It's almost like they had a list that they could choose from...................

Well, they had a list, unless they were very strong-minded!
They had to please two sets of parents, and probably some god-parenting siblings as well.
Not to mention the rest of the families saying "what sort of a name is BLANCHE?" "what do you mean - you're calling him Michael - never been a Michael in our family".

And in Catholic families, it had to be a saint's name until the 1960s - so you had priests saying "you can't just call her Deirdre, I'll baptise her Mary after your mother"