Genealogy Chat

I once knew a Gordon Grocock and my old boss had dealings with a Nigerian who was called Chief Onajobi!!! Lynne

My husband once had a neighbour called Hogg. They named their daughter IMA HOGG.

These aren't in my tree, but........ A Mr and Mrs King , in the village where I was born, named their daughter Queenie........ And my stepmother knew a man named I P Green.... True. Bea.

Cliff, Might it be Euphemia? Sarah

Not a funny one but one of my ancestors (female) in 1825 is shown as 'Epha' Suspect this is an abbreviation but does anyone know what the full version would be? Cliff

Glad you Peter Rabbett didn't meet up with my GGGGM - hir first name was LETTUCE Cliff

I too have found some haddocks. But the best one I found was Mercy Over! Kim

Found a family (possibly connected to one of mine) who named a son Obstrupus. And just found the marriage of someone with christian name Doctor JJ

Stop it, Robin! I did some transcribing for Kempston Bedfordshire, PR's. In the early years there were quite a few girls called Douglas (or was it Dougal?? - I've forgotten!) Sarah

and while pursuing a genealogical quest for another thread, just noticed that the well-known family of smallish furry animals was well represented in Mexborough Yorks, with a variety of spellings, one of its scions being a certain Aaron Bevers

have just found a brother of my gr-gr-gr-gr grandfather(i think it's that many gr's) was called AXEY LEE?? is this a proper christian name or a spelling mistake on IGI???

and Stacey was a pet form of Eustace

Patience was a boy's name once, though very rare

What about the gender of names?? My son's middle name is Christian, so when I found Victorian Christian's on my tree, at first I thought they were boys, but then realised it was a girl's name then..... I expect we all know who Shirley Crabtree and Marion Robert Morrison were? What other names might I get mixed up over?? Sarah

ah Beever - that reminds me of another thread. :-) Joy

to return to genealogy, the National Archives website is running a news story about an 1861 census enumerator called Isaac Hunt http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/63.htm

I was sure it couldn't be true when I got the info off a lookup from a member here on GR, so I went to great lengths to make sure I had been given right info. Seems my gtgtgrandfathers sister Fanny Goodfellow married Thomas Badcock, my sister told me she was glad some names didn't make it this far down the line. - who am I to talk, look what I did to my children, I married Ray Titman cheers Laurie

while walking through Darnall cemetery Sheffield this week noticed this grave inparticular John Beever also wife Fanny

this is a real name: Jolly Sadd

Martin - I think I've read that book! lol Jackie - We had a teacher at school called Bob Downs! lol