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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 1,545 Send Message	Teddys Girl	Report	15 Jul 2008 16:09
	Ugley, Essex, and Pretty Corner, Sussex
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,621 Send Message	Harpstrings	Report	15 Jul 2008 09:05
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,621 Send Message	Coxley, Wells, Somerset.
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 673 Send Message	Spud Fae Livi	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:28
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 673 Send Message	Ros what's the matter with Maryhill, I was born there. What about Bonkle in Lanarkshire. Spud
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	CMD	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:20
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	HO HO Good one KathyrnB (dildo) goes to bed sniggering.... cmdxxx love... 'Little paradise' goodnight...
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 8,423 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:17
	Ahoghill in N. Ireland - they were in hysterics when I promounced it as it looks - it is Ack-hock-ill. I love the name Tittymouse Lane - it is near Weyhill, Andover
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:11
	Okay. You guys have some good ones, I have to admit. We ran into Middle Wallop when visiting Salisbury, where there was a banner strung across the street outside our hotel window for an air show being held there. All I can ever think of is walloping yr middle and rubbing yr head. But you got nothing on Newfoundland. http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/folklore/placenames.html Some of the best. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newfoundland has the most unusual collection of place names of any country in the world. The hackneyed manner by which other New World settlers identified their communities and natural landmarks did not appeal to the rugged types who settled here. Early Newfoundlanders were men of imagination and wit who were at their best when leaving names to posterity. Consider their humorous side. There must have been a twinkle in many an eye when such gems as these were bestowed: * Jerry's Nose * Nick's Nose Cove * Come-by-Chance * Blow-me-down * Lushes Bight * Bumble Bee Bight * Ha Ha Bay * Run-by-guess * Bleak Joke Cove * Calves Nose * Nancy Oh * Little Looping Harbour * Snake's Bight * Joe Batt's Arm * Dildo (Yes, Dildo.) The depths of their hardship in times long past caused such place names as: * Gripe Point * Bad Bay * Bleak Island * Misery Point * Famine Point * Wild Bight * Breakheart Point * Famish Gut * Savage Cove * Dead Man's Bay * Confusion Bay * Wreck Cove * Bareneed * Empty Basket Some settlers were contented with their discoveries and their satisfaction is reflected in: * Heart's Desire * Heart's Content * Heart's Delight * Safe Harbour * Comfort Cove * Little Heart's Ease * Sweet Bay * Too Good Arm * Little Paradise * Harbour Grace * Angel's Cove * Cupids When imagination ran out they turned to what they had at hand: * Plate Cove * Ladle Cove * Spout Cove * Chimney Cove * Table Cove * Spoon Cove * Butter Cove * Cape Onion * Broom Point * Bacon Cove * Bread Island * Rooms * Traytown Dry of ideas, they ended up with: * Nameless Cove * Harbour Harbour
	Researching: Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:03
	Lol the Higginbottoms of Broadbottom!!!
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	14 Jul 2008 23:02
	Pennycomequick even has a post office!! http://www.plymouthdata.info/Postal%20Service%203.htm My gran lived in Pennycomequick as a child with her aunt and uncle, who ran a shop!! .
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: November 2007 Posts: 1,918 Send Message	MayBlossomEmpressofSpring	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:59
	We have the Giggle Gaggle, The Mudd, The Stand, The Cackturn Le Bangs Road, The Hodge, Hodge Bottom and I live on Summerbottom Broadbottom and my next door neighbours are Higginbottom.
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	CMD	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:57
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	Pennycomequick.. pennycomequick.. yeah right... lol
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,563 Send Message	Karen in the desert	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:50
	I know of a village called Undy.
	Researching: Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:46
	LOL Lorraine!!! More Hampshire ones: Mousehole, Bashley and Sway. Strangely all in the New Forest again! Sybil Headingham in Essex Owslebury, near Winchester Mavis Grind in Shetland Cocking in Sussex Pennycomequick, just outside Plymouth, Devon
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	CMD	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:43
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 475 Send Message	Just outside Stafford, there is a village called SALT. and if i remember right, when my sister lived in WOOL (Dorset) years ago....there was a nother village called..SHITTINGTON...but pronounced sittington..
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 703 Send Message	its only me	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:39
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 703 Send Message	i live on long john off of all dicks try to explain that to delivery people they always think im joking
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,563 Send Message	Karen in the desert	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:39
	My grandma used to live in an area called Birdiehouse. And I used to live in a street named Lamb Gates.
	Researching: Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:34
	Also Dalton le Dale, Houghton Le Spring, and Hettone le Hole.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:33
	I live near a Cold Hesleden, nd yes it can get a bit nippy there if the wind is up!
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:32
	The Zeals, near Warminster Wiltshire - darn good pub there!!!
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,311 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:31
	Chipshop - Devon Cuckoo's Knob - Wiltshire Clench - Wiltshire Cold Christmas - Hertfordshire Crackpot - North Yorks Fryup - North Yorks Seething - Norfolk
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: March 2008 Posts: 622 Send Message	Onwe	Report	14 Jul 2008 22:27
Member Since: March 2008 Posts: 622 Send Message	How about here in Aussie we have Wagga Wagga, and Wup Wup,

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