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No - they weren't really called this were they?

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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:39

I'm sure we did have a thread about silly names before - it may well have been me that started it too!

Mind like a drain. Same old problem all my life!

Bob - you're lowering the tone young man. If you'd been saddled with a name like Mocock you wouldn't make jokes about it. And they are a pain to research at times!

LOL

Jill

Stevie

Stevie Report 5 Dec 2009 00:41

Found it..........Here's one I found earlier. lol :o))


Name: Tits Tilles
Age: 13
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Rockbourne, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Fordingbridge
Household Members: Name Age
Harriet Permann 51
Fanny Tilles 40
Tits Tilles 13

And next door neighbour!!!
Name: Fanny Turner
Age: 11
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Tom
Mother's Name: Emily
Gender: Female
Where born: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Fordingbridge

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:43

Must be related to Nimrod surely?

Deaths Jun 1848 (>99%)
SQUELCH Fanny Birmingham 16 186 Scan available - click to view

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 5 Dec 2009 00:45

That's dreadful!!!!

And you went looking for it particularly, didn't you?

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:46

I'm becoming quite attached to the Squelch clan:

Marriages Jun 1878 (>99%)
SQUELCH Esther Squanche Pancras 1b 220 Scan available - click to view


Bless her.

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 5 Dec 2009 00:47

Stevie ... I'd have thought you'd find them around Drury Lane, where someone I once suspected of being an ancestor was recorded among a long list of women, with the notation "would not state occupation, rooms rented by the night so no point in returning next day".

Stevie

Stevie Report 5 Dec 2009 00:52

pmsl Mrs Grumps

I've never been to Drury Lane Janey. The only I notes I made where from Ancestry................I plead I was led astray lol.

:o))

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:53

FreeBMD is my friend!

Deaths Dec 1880 (>99%)
Bum Male 0 Belper 7b 36[68]

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:56

LOL

Search for
Type: All Types Surname: bottom
Sorry, that search found 5964 matches and the maximum number that can be displayed is 3000.


Who are they all? Does anyone know anyone called Bottom?

Stevie

Stevie Report 5 Dec 2009 00:56

This was found by someone else;

Name: Burns Dick
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Relation: Son
Father's Name: William
Mother's Name: Ellen
Gender: Male
Where born: Millwall, London, England
Civil Parish: Wanstead
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Essex
Country: England

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 5 Dec 2009 00:57

Mocking the dead babies?!?

You'll be joining me in the inner circle of you know where if you don't watch out.

And I don't mean a good place. ;)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 00:59

So she'd been teased all her life about being called Mabel Diggle - and then she married Herbert ...

Marriages Sep 1912 (>99%)
Bottom Herbert G Diggle Watford 3a 1866 Scan available - click to view
Diggle Mabel F Bottom Watford 3a 1866 Scan available - click to view

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 01:01

Oh I am loving these combos:

The joining together of the Seymour / Bottom families:

Marriages Sep 1912 (>99%)
Bottom Jane E Seymour Wandsworth 1d 1683 Scan available - click to view
Seymour William J Bottom Wandsworth 1d 1683 Scan available - click to view

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 5 Dec 2009 01:07

Sorry Janey!

I've been looking at the marriages instead - wonder how many were double barrelled by the bride and groom ...

Found a Jelly / Bottom and a Jolley / Bottom in the same quarter.

And a Noble / Bottom ...

Meek / Bottom

Senior / Bottom



Enough, enough - I need my sleep!!

Nite all - thank you

Jill

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 5 Dec 2009 01:08

Okay, good game. I ran into the surname Garters here the other day on TTF, and one of them married well indeed.

Marriages Jun 1930
French Louisa M Garters Tendring 4a 1949
Garters Joseph V G French Tendring 4a 1949

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 5 Dec 2009 01:10

Well it's 8:08 pm here, and Heartbeat isn't on til 9, and I obviously didn't finish the work due at 4 (hey, the gu'mint website screwed up, I couldn't submit it ...), and I'm out of cigarettes ... and now I'm all alone.

Sniff. Sleep tight! Er, well. ;)

Mick from the Bush

Mick from the Bush Report 5 Dec 2009 01:22

A friend of mine has an ancestor called Lilley White-

and he's a bloke!

Some parents can be cruel!


xxxxxx mick

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 5 Dec 2009 09:13

what about

Richard Hughes?

Ann

Ann Report 9 Aug 2012 18:30

My favourite is 'Fanny Musty', saw it a couple of weeks ago and nearly wetted myself. :-D