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Posted on 09/12/2005 12:05:41 PM PDT by lizol
British Office Compiles List of Odd Names 28 minutes ago
LONDON - Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus.
Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records. The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries.
Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century.
"My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane," she said.
Other discoveries included Boadicea Basher, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Faithful Cock, Susan Booze, Elizabeth Disco, Edward Evil, Fozzitt Bonds, Truth Bullock, Charity Chilly, Gentle Fudge, Obedience Ginger and Offspring Gurney.
Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797.
Other remarkable duos in the marriage records included Nicholas Bone and Priscilla Skin, joined in wedlock in 1636; Charles Swine and Jane Ham in 1711; John Mutton and Ann Veale in 1791, and Richard Dinner and Mary Cook in 1802.
Those aren't odd names. Try going through life as Graybeard.
Could be worse, try Al Gore or John Kerry
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I knew a Twinkle Star in college. It was her given name, not a married name. She said her mother loved Christmas.
I knew a guy at school, his name was Paul Nurse. More amusingly perhaps was his brother, Andrew Nurse.
Great names - even sillier than those on Monty Python!
If you hear me speak about either one of them...you'd think they were close relatives of Faithful Cock.
Well, at least it's dignified! Makes you sound wise.
Twins...Ida & Neal Down
Had a client ... Harry Weiner
and Doris and Harry Tusch
Well, at least it's dignified! Makes you sound wise.
Unless you're 6 months old! :-)
Or like a pirate. ;-)
My maternal grandmother never forgave Mom for not naming my brother after her husband. Good going, Mom--my brother's name would have been Oscar Maher.
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