General Chat

I went to school with a May Day. Her sisters were April and June! Honest! My brother taught a boy called Scott Harder. A friend of mine wanted to call her daughter Theresa, but decided not as her surname was Green! I also knew someone called Richard Sole. What are these parents thinking about? Sue

my name was hardy my mum wanted to call me lauren but thought it was to close then someone said cos i had red hair should of called her heidi hardy -dont think so when i met my husband his name is smyth im just glad its not Smylie other wise i would of been in troubloe -Kylie Smylie hehe my friend from school her last name was dick and her dads name was micheal and everyone called him mick -Mick Dick

I went to school with a girl called megan Kerr but unfortunately her little brother was called wayne. melinda

People I have known over the years (all true). Dicky Bird, Polly Bird, May Flowers, Ben Down, Robert Sole, (think about it), Rose Wood, Jack Boot, June March and Bob Shilling, (only those who remember pre-decimal money will get this one). I think the most cringy name I have ever known was borne by a poor guy I worked with years ago who we all knew as Fred. He confessed to me one day that his real first name was PRETORIA. His Dad had fought in the Boer War in S.Africa. My own first names are a tad cringeworthy: Bernard Matthew. (if anyone says BOOOOOTIFUL TURKEYS I'll leave GR).

I work with a guy called Marshall Hart!!

my grandmothers sister was born may dance and her mother sarah was known as fanny so she was fan dance. jenny x

My hubby knew a guy called Gordon Bennet.

My daughters married name is botten...not too bad but when she was expecting her 3rd child she liked the name Harry. Well you keep saying harry botten and it comes out hairy bottom...she chanfged her mind and called him Albie. I also know of someone with a boy called Tom and a girl called Jerry Lynn

The brother of someone I was at college with was called Ashley Pratt. One of the lecturers was called Dickie Bird and there is a solicitor's near here called Wright Hassal. Mel

I always wanted to open a secondhand shop and call it Emma Chizzit (thankyou Monica Dickens!). I heard recently of a young couple calling their newborn Haig-Lee. Their respective surnames are Haig and Lee so the poor child will be known henceforth as Haig-Lee Haig-Lee. (And wont some future transcriber have fun with that) And no, I dont know if its a boy or a girl!

There's a dentist near us called Mr Dentith! Elf ps I used to have to send letters out to a Mr A Tw*tt.

We had a May Day on one side of the family and I was at school with a girl named Sylvia May Drinkwater. Rosemary(Essex).

There's an optician called Miss Seymour. Joy

as in Mrs Bucket, Jim. Joy

I know of the following Helen Mellon Mick Michael Holly Wood John Thomas

There was a family called Fouquet on the Isle of Wight once upon a time. Parish Clerks spelt it as Fucket.

My Mums chum - Rhoda Dailey, and two people I was at school with, R.Sole and Gaye Pratt.. Does make you wonder what the parents were thinking of at the time...

Good firm names there - What about The Idle working mens club and the Halifax Automatic Screw Company!!

The firm I used to work for had a client called "Mycox Electric". When the receptionist answered the phone with the name of the firm one day, one of our articled clerks couldn't resist answering back "Oh really, so is mine".

Daniel, I have heard of Fairy Nough.