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

[rachelralph]

i found Saville in my tree and i have to admit i was a little uneasy, especially when i found that they were yorkshire way. however on further research i discover we may be connected to the saville foljambe moore family in yorkshire. the history is fantastic so i forget totally that somewhere we may have a rotton egg in the family (this seems like such a trivial name for a evil man)

i never knew that about catholic names! that might explain a mystery in my tree!

[3sillydogs]

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"

Never looked at it that way, it would explain why brothers' and sisters' children all seemed to have the same names
Must have been fun at family gatherings with all these Henry's and William's and Elizabeths and Sarah's running around

[dowdstree]

Any surname that I can prove the link would do me. No aversion to any name you have listed (possible some of the people though.)

The repetition of first names down the generations can be helpful or a pain in the posterior.

My own maiden name is SMALL - Got the mickey taken out of me at school.

Dorrie

[Erin2012]

Hitler.

[GrahamSimons]

Smellie? Daft? Smelt? Slowleigh?

[Treetotal]

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.

Rishile

Me too....or Shipman and Huntley.

Carol

[ThrelfallYorky]

Not at all sure I'd want an actual LINK with any politician - of any party. The name however, can't be held responsible for the man - or woman!
I really don't want to find another Jones, Williams, Roberts, Smith, Brown, Anderson, Green or White - unless they are very well-documented, with an entire, well-researched family tree tied round their necks! They give the biggest headaches, especially when they don't seem to know where they came from!
I think I'd not really want a name connected with people like Shipman, Brady, Hindley, etc - especially as I recently found a link, albeit distant, to Pierrpoint the hangman family!

[a chesters]

Any surname that I can prove the link would do me. No aversion to any name you have listed (possible some of the people though.)

The repetition of first names down the generations can be helpful or a pain in the posterior.

My own maiden name is SMALL - Got the mickey taken out of me at school.

Dorrie

On Oh's side, there was John, Henry, John, Henry for about 8-10 generations. Most confusing

[clairec666]

I'm hoping Farage doesn't show up in my family

Aside from that, I hope Smith stays away. I've got a Jones ancestor and haven't been able to pin down anything about her pre-marriage. I'm lucky that I've got so many rare surnames to play with.