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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #36 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 05:58 BST (UK) »
Some very funny examples 
Ann a Rack made me chuckle

Poor BOTTOM men ! Tho the women could still have married them and changed their surname by deed poll

My stepsis got her first husband to change his surname to hers . They split up soon after
Her second husband retained his surname and she double barrelled hers . The eldest  children  have  her surname .

I knew a SMILEY  who.d changed his surname because he grew up with surname SMELLY + didn't want to pass it on to his children

Roberts,Fellman.Macdermid smith jones,Bloch,Irvine,Hallis Stevenson

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #37 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 10:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Monday 10 April 23 22:46 BST (UK)
Imagine Ken Tucky dating Minnie Sotar and having a daughter Louse E Anna.
They would have been pals of Phil Adelphia, and  Minnie Apolis.

Little girl at school when Jamie  became a girls’ name ,as with Jamie Lee Curtis-
but her Mum spelled it Jammie ,fortunately her surname was not Dodger!
She was however a lovely little girl .
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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #38 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 10:06 BST (UK) »
How about the two musical sisters  Claire Annette and Amanda Lynn?
Nurse, Musther, Smith, Julnes, Rogers, Parsons,Grieves(Greaves,Greeves),Wood,Cray,Scrine,Shellard,Greenstock, Habersham

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #39 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 10:47 BST (UK) »
OH changed his surname when he left university and was employed by a bank where it might have scared off the customers (hint - first two syllables were swindle).
Reminds me of the old joke about the law firm called Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe.

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #40 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 11:12 BST (UK) »
There is a player in our AFL whose name is Steele Sidebottom, pronounced as read.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #41 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 11:57 BST (UK) »
Bodgit and Scarper , cowboy builders :o
Nurse, Musther, Smith, Julnes, Rogers, Parsons,Grieves(Greaves,Greeves),Wood,Cray,Scrine,Shellard,Greenstock, Habersham

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #42 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 12:34 BST (UK) »
Woe, Lackaday, and Rue - my solicitors.   

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #43 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 14:04 BST (UK) »
.....and   Sue, Grabbit and Run
Nurse, Musther, Smith, Julnes, Rogers, Parsons,Grieves(Greaves,Greeves),Wood,Cray,Scrine,Shellard,Greenstock, Habersham

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Re: Unfortunatel names
« Reply #44 on: Tuesday 11 April 23 14:06 BST (UK) »
FreeBMD has lots of entries for Jenny Wren, and quite a few for William Goat. Also some for Victoria Plumb; I was a bit disappointed not to find a Victoria Sponge, but there were some for Victoria Spong.
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