General Chat

There's an antique dealer called Robin Bastard - honest! Other daft names I've come across;- Arthur Cider Polly Esther Cotton F.Hart (Freda) Dick Balls Jack Dawes Mike Hunt Rick Hunt C Lyons Why do their parents do it?

I work for a mail order company, so we get lots of strange names. A few weeks ago I had an order from Lorely Hardy

i went to school with a boy called Philip McCracken - he was known as Phil!!!!!

My mum was desperate to call me Emma, but my nan wouldnt let her cos of my surname!! xx

When I was looking through some parish registers recently I cam accross a Mary Marey - wonder if she was quite contrary! lol My teenage daughters first 2 initials are R.C - really discribes her attitude! Jeanette x

I read in a magazine a while ago that a reader's friend went to a school reunion. She started talking to one of her old classmates about jobs they'd had over the years, and the classmate said she used to be a receptionist for a firm that made doorknobs. This was owned by a Mr R Bulgeing. She said it was all she could do to keep a straight face when answering the phone and saying "Bulgeing Knobs, can I help you?" As I say, I read it in a magazine! Glenys.

My tree has two Fanny Fiddlers (mother and daughter) and one Fanny Fidler, the first two in my dad's family and the third in my mum's. I kid you not.

I once worked with a guy who claimed to have had a school chum called Russell Sprout.

My granmother worked with a man called Mr Dyer. when he answered his phone he always said "Dyer 'ere" A

Wonder what other treasures you'll uncover then!..,think your postmans going to be busy!..

Jeanette kindly sent me an interigation list. I have sent out 2 copies so far. She offered thum screws but I said the questions will do.

very different Daniel, Have you compiled your Questionnaire yet?, or is this one of the replies back from it!.

I heard on the radio today of someone trying to discourage her friend from calling daughter Laura Ann Hardy.

My oldest son went to school with a Richard Head...poor boy :( Bev

pmsl, x

A cousin has told me that a great uncle on her mother's side of the family was called Fairey. That's not THAT bad I hear you think, (yes I can hear you) but his surname was Gay. :-(