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Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:20 GMT (UK) »
Total trivia, but - are there any surnames associated with people you have a strong aversion to, that you most certainly wouldn't want to find in your tree?

Top of my list would be Thatcher! I'd have to go to the ends of the earth to prove she wasn't related!

Closely followed by: Trump, Price and Clarkson....
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:29 GMT (UK) »
Bush & Saville.
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Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:33 GMT (UK) »
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...

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:38 GMT (UK) »
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Top of my list would be Thatcher! I'd have to go to the ends of the earth to prove she wasn't related!

Sadly, you probably are - do some googling and you'll find that a great deal of us descended from the Plantagenets offsprung ....   :P

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:38 GMT (UK) »
Me neither, can't be  held responsible for our forefathers ::) ;D

But like Ayashi I would like some more unboring names............

Too many Henry William, William Henry, William etc sometimes brothers named their kids like this very confusing makes my head spin :o :o ;D
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:40 GMT (UK) »
I don't mind having a villain or two in the distant past but I wouldn't want recent villains so would hate to find Brady, Hindley, Nielsen, Sutcliffe etc.

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:41 GMT (UK) »
Trump, Trump and Trump!  I was going to write what I think of him, but I might get banned!
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 13:52 GMT (UK) »
De Ath
Freak
A Male Chicken

I have a Trump family. The father killed at Gallipoli
Numerous Freaks and variants all from County Durham.

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 02 February 16 14:21 GMT (UK) »
None whatsoever!
I never judge people by what they are called ;D

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!
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