Unfortunatel names

[Viktoria]

Yes close links and also with Old English
Viktoria.

[Lol-R]

I have relatives with the surname Quick. The old school registers had the surname first so imagine the entry for my gt gt aunt and uncle Fanny and Dick (not Richard). Unfortunately Fanny Quick married Richard Smarts and became Fanny Smarts!!!

[mrs.tenacious]

And I raise you …….

Fanny Burns.

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[Lisajb]

I went to school with brothers, surname was Head.

One was first name Richard.....

[coombs]

I remember the EastEnders character Willy Roper in the mid 1990s. 

Never come across an Ivor Glasscock even though the actual surname is common in Essex. 

[bevj]

I have a Pleasant Johncock in my tree.
She married a Mr. Fright and they duly had a daughter called Pleasant Fright.
Bev

[coombs]

I have come across an amusing surname - Lardant. A name found among Huguenots.

[susieroe]

I once read a blog about names. The writer contended that all the names with "bottom" were breeding out. Women with the name got married and the name ended. Men with the name died as bachelors, as no woman wanted to be lumbered with the name. How true that is, I do not know, but I can believe it. 

Regards 

Chas

My Mum had a friend whose name was Sidebotham. She refused to marry him unless he changed it. He did, but I don't know what to.

On another note, I worked with a lovely girl whose name was Kamiljit. She said she'd been teased at school and it was actually the name of a beautiful flower in India.

[ThrelfallYorky]

How can I stop being notified about this thread?
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