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... and you thought 'Ben Dover' was a funny name ?

Hi all,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164906/Lumbered-boring-Thank-lucky-stars-werent-born-Anice-Bottom-Kitty-Litter-Golden-Balls.html

An amusing article about some of the weirder, funnier, quirky names people have been given over the years.

In 2005, Jackaman, an archivist at the Cornwall Record Office, produced a silly names list, gleaned from her files, which included such names as Philadelphia Bunnyface, Boadicea Basher and Ostrich Pockinghorn. Cobbledick, a surname from my wife's ancestry, was included.

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So take a bow, please, Teddy Bear, Edwin Quack, Nellie Smellie, Norman Conquest, Frou-Frou Mallet and Oswald Beagle Pratt among many, many others - all of them, I assure you, entirely real individuals from times past whose names have been recorded for posterity in official documents.

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most women would prefer not to marry if it meant thereby acquiring an embarrassing alternative from a putative husband (an honourable exception might be made, here, for Mary Madcap, who in 1782 married John Bastard), and thus quirky names have died out over time.

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What were their parents thinking? (A superfluous question in the case of Lewis Unexpected Smith, Not Wanted James Colvill and Final Eldridge, all of whom I have encountered in my research.)

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Sue Age (Does'nt seem so funny ? Try saying is fast - Sewage)
Born Glasgow 1849

John Anonymous
Born 1865

Golden Balls
Baptised Aylsham, Norfolk 1813

Lettuce Bedlum
Married Nottham 1596

Rogers Boys (British slang - To rodger someone .. ie to f**k someone)
Born Newport 1848

Anice Bottom
Baptised Halstead 1837

Ben Dover (I always thought this was a joke name about a ***
Irishman)
Baptised London 1839

Elle Fant
Born Durnham 1861

Sue Flay
Born Wellington 1871

Sidney Kidney
Born Milton 1906

Kitty Litter
Born Marton 1839

Fartamalus Purdger
Born Kent 1829

Mary Slutty
Born Birmingham 1832

Pleasant Titty
Baptised Margate 1768

Fanny Warmer
Born Northants 1862

Love A. Duck
Born Helmsey 1820

Constance Smell
Born Essex 1878

Mary Xmas
Baptised Petworth, Sussex 1759

Al Dente
Born Whitechapel 1900

Enjoy

Regards
Syxx