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Nimrod Squelch.


Now, Ah Poo was clearly not of English stock.

But Harriet Poo of Huddersfield? Hm!

Have you been entering naughty words into search engines Grumpy?

Ellis Poo Poo ?? from Leeds?

LOL Susan - yep! Sorry.

Searching for someone and the name TORLOT came up - made me smile and - hey ...

1871 -

Albert Poo
Age: 9
Estimated birth year: abt 1862
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Benjamin
Mother's Name: Mary A
Gender: Male
Where born: Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Civil parish: St James
County/Island: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Registration district: Caistor
Sub-registration district: Great Grimsby
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Household schedule number: 169
Household Members:
Name Age
Benjamin Poo 35
Mary A Poo 33
Albert Poo 9
Arthur Poo 7
Rachel Poo 4
Clara Poo 1

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Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 3412; Folio: 83; Page: 26; GSU roll: 839405.

Oh well...beats biting your toenails and seeing how far you can spit them I suppose...am off to see what I can find

MsG -- my favourite stupid Ancestry trick.

Think of every four-letter word you can (and longer), and do a general census search.

Like this: %$#@* - where %$#@ is the word, with the asterisk at the end like that as a wildcard so you get all the fun variants.

Start with the biggle. There are some good 'uns.

I think %$#@nelf is my favourite.

There are even trees on Ancestry! Must be Pugh surely?

Although this one sounds like someone in a bad mood:

poo Family Tree
Public Member Tree Unsourced


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Name: Great Grandpa Smelly Poo
Birth: 1879 - Plymouth, England
Death: 1968 - Gravesend, England
Great Grandpa Smelly Poo Great Grandma R Smellt unknown unknown
Name: Great Grandpa Smelly Poo
Birth: 1879 - Plymouth, England
Death: 1968 - Gravesend, England
Spouse: Great Grandma R Smellt


Jill

Janey - you are SUCH a bad influence.

Found that %$#@nelf one - but the image says Cracknell. Who on earth puts in a correction to show the wife's maiden name when it's so obviously wrong???

Oh my word - they get worse!! I'd not have thought of looking for that name and variants until tonight!!

I'm off to try a different one now!

Jill

Ackcherly, I complained to Ancestry once about a tree where all the names were obscene racial slurs. People seem to get a kick out of it.

I happened on it because I was searching for my famous (on GR) weird gr-grfather's sister's husband who had changed his name to McCock.

Try googling that without the filters on.


But here, this is too much.

I googled that favourite name of mine. F$#@nelf.

Fix the URL here.

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/F***nelf-family-history-uk.ashx

or

www.ancestry.co.uk/facts/F***nelf-places-origin.ashx

or

www.ancestry.co.uk/facts/F***nelf-emigration-au.ashx


Yeesh.

I hadn't done it in a while and I'm cracking up.

%$#@lebank

New things to say when you trip on the cat!

Oh, and have a look for Lemon Balls while you're there. I couldn't bring myself to correct it when I ran across him. ;)

It won't let me look at those URLs - comes up "Bad Request" !!

I've been looking at the horrible word - which I can't put on here and can't give a clue to - but eeuugh.

And I know about your McCock lot as they cross over with my Mocock lot! My poor old grandad with a name like Arthur Mocock !!

Jill

Well you have to replace the *** in the urls with the real thing. ;)

Yes, Mococks masquerading as McCocks, they're all over, annoying people.

You mean Lemon Balls from Ball Lane in Essex on the 1901? I'm going to have to correct it - poor chap!

Sorted!

Jill

Oh duh! How stoopid am I sometimes?

Yes - and you notice there are more and more Mococks - as I find the elusive ones and correct them?

Jill

Or 'Enery the eighth in his new cricket box..........does Mcock look big in this?

Bob

1901 Census
Name: Fanny Browning
Age: 49
Estimated birth year: abt 1852
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: West Grimstead, Sussex, England
Civil parish: Henfield
Ecclesiastical parish: Henfield St Peter
Town: Henfield
County/Island: Sussex
Country: England
Registration district: Steyning
Sub-registration district: Steyning
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 35
Household Members: Name Age
Fanny Browning 49
Fanny Browning 25

I'm sure there was a thread about names like this..........*off to look* lol

:o))

There've been several. ;)

My fave *real* one is still Nimrod Squelch!

Marriages Dec 1843
Squelch Nimrod Reading 6 426


He must've been immortal. That's the only record of him.


Found him!

NIMROD SQUELCH
Christening: 30 MAY 1824 Chiddingfold, Surrey, England
Father: JOHN SQUELCH
Mother: MARY
Batch No.: C067991

I guess John and Mary decided something fancier was needed.

NIMROD SQUELCH
Spouse: HARRIET THORNFIELD
Marriage: 25 DEC 1843 Saint Mary, Reading, Berkshire, England:
Batch No.: M018473

Love is blind. Or at least, given literacy levels, deaf.