Unfortunatel names

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Fanny Schmellar featured in a question on  UK tv quiz show 'The Chase'. The pronunciation was something approximating Fanny Smeller causing the host to corpse multiple times.

[coombs]

A Benjamin Harbord born Coltishall in Norfolk in 1775 (died 1856 in Gt Yarmouth) had a father John Harbord born 1741 in Tunstead and John's mother's maiden name was Coldass.

Benjamin is likely a distant relative of mine as I descend from William Harbord born c1675 who lived in Norwich but may have been from the Tunstead/Coltishall areas.

[Ayashi]

Fanny Schmellar featured in a question on  UK tv quiz show 'The Chase'. The pronunciation was something approximating Fanny Smeller causing the host to corpse multiple times.

There's another clip from another program where they actually ambush Bradley Walsh with Fanny Chmelar (correctly like "sh-mee-ler") in person. At least she was a good sport about it!

[Gillg]

A friend of my aunt's had the first name Queenie.  Queenie married a Mr King and became Queenie King.

[BillyF]

I was looking at a Lincolnshire law and order website and came across this!

In 1900 a new Magistrates court opened in Grimsby, one of the magistrates was the Rev. John Posthumous Parkinson.

[coombs]

If Parkinson was not a common name, then Michael Parkinson could have claimed he is a descendant of Rev. John Posthumous Parkinson, then WDYTYA would not find his ancestry so boring after all. 

[Erato]

I actually knew someone named P**** Screws.  She may well still be alive, so I won't give away her first name.

[Gillg]

....but of course we all want to know what it was!

[andrewalston]

Bill Lear, the American most famously associated with LearJet, also started Motorola, and later introduced the 8-track cartridge.
He must have had a sense of humour. He named his daughter SHANDA.