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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 185 Send Message	lollybasher	Report	13 Apr 2013 10:33
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 185 Send Message	A Public girls school I worked at in the fifties, large boards in the school entrance hall with names of old head girls. One was FANNY HOLE... I think it was 1926. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	13 Apr 2013 10:24
	I came across Charity Box while searching the census
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: January 2010 Posts: 57,155 Send Message	'Emma'	Report	13 Apr 2013 10:16
	Robin Banks......say no more :-D :-D
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	13 Apr 2013 09:51
	I will leave it to your imagination as to what kids called this lady - Miss Phylis Pharr :-D :-D :-D
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	13 Apr 2013 09:13
	my first ever boss was Leyshon Leyshon I worked with a guy - a nurse - called Michael Hunt - someone in the office had been looking for him when he walked past our office window - I called out - Mike Hunt just walked past the window, to which some wag in the office replied - "Well I've heard of throwing you voice, but that's just plain ridiculous"!!!!
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 27,883 Send Message	DIZZI	Report	13 Apr 2013 09:03
	FIRST NAME PEN?S FILL IN LETTER OM ANCESTRY THATS ALL
	Researching: FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	13 Apr 2013 08:51
	On my tree, on official documents as: Winifred A Hoare
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: August 2007 Posts: 629 Send Message	Elaine	Report	13 Apr 2013 03:41
	Aw..poor divils! I suppose though,years ago,Fanny was just a shorted version of Frances...there was nothing vulgar about it! They weren't to know,that over a hundred years later,their names would be a cause of hilarity! Lol ,
	Researching: Evans.,Roughley.,Whitfield.,Parr.,Farrington(All Lancs); Birchall(Staffs):Mahon(Ireland)Rice(Ireland)Aughney(Carlow)Curran(Carlow)Kelly(Cork)
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	13 Apr 2013 03:07
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	My 3xgreat-grandfather, born c1808 in Cockburnspath Berwickshire..... Robert Robertson :-D Including gggrandfather, I have 27 of them. eleven David Davidsons :-) nine John Johnsons & two John Johnstones Two "unfortunate" names on my tree ~ Fanny Hare & May Swallow What were the parents thinking?? :-D
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 29,114 Send Message	$parkling $andie	Report	13 Apr 2013 02:56
	Of course.... there was William Williams (sorry Elaine said that) Thomas Thomas James (Jimmy) James Robert Roberts Edward Edwards Lionel Lionel Philip Phillips Thomas Thomas Vincet Vincent there's probably a whole lot more! Shame their parents didn't put a thought into it...or was it on purpose ?
	Researching: Nothing.. cos I'm fed up !
Member Since: August 2007 Posts: 629 Send Message	Elaine	Report	13 Apr 2013 01:51
	hahaha....when we were kids at school,way back in the early 50s,we had a few,including Isabella Bell.....can also remember Teresa Green....never even thought of them being proper peoples names...we used them as kind of "knock-knock" jokes! made us titter back then(still amuses me today....i never quite grew up! lol) and what happened to the christian name being same as the surname? in our town we had Carol Caroll.,William(Billy)Williams.,and a boy in my class was Evan Evans. anyone add to them?
	Researching: Evans.,Roughley.,Whitfield.,Parr.,Farrington(All Lancs); Birchall(Staffs):Mahon(Ireland)Rice(Ireland)Aughney(Carlow)Curran(Carlow)Kelly(Cork)
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	13 Apr 2013 01:05
	and this is an ancestry transcription which they refuse to correct http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?new=1&gsln=fuckingham&gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&gss=sfs63_&sbo=1 (should be Freckingham )
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	13 Apr 2013 01:03
	I guy I knew had the moniker William I G Ball ...
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	13 Apr 2013 00:42
	lol...that's fab !!!..when I was younger my boyfriend's surname was Hoey. I remember him telling me the reason why he felt he and Heidi had no future :-D
	Researching: All comments made by me are all mine unless otherwise stated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real life events unless otherwise stated is purely coincidental.
Member Since: August 2007 Posts: 629 Send Message	Elaine	Report	13 Apr 2013 00:39
	Could not resist sharing this....found it on Lancs OPC while researching Parr family....who would saddle a poor girl with a name like that? John Parr - Son of Edward Parr & Isabella (formerly Bell), his wife Fancy going thro life with a name like Isabella Bell! Apologies to anyone called this,but it just tickled me! lol
	Researching: Evans.,Roughley.,Whitfield.,Parr.,Farrington(All Lancs); Birchall(Staffs):Mahon(Ireland)Rice(Ireland)Aughney(Carlow)Curran(Carlow)Kelly(Cork)

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