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What's in a name?

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craft1948 | 14:18 Wed 16th Jun 2010 | ChatterBank
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I've seen it all now......just being doing some genealogy research and found a family in the 1901 census with several children, with names Fern, Daisy, and Vine...........their surname was Leaf.
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I couldnt believe it when I discovered one of our ancestors Easter Liddy Watson married a Mr Christmas, hence it came up on the next census as Easter Christmas. I found out later it had been transcribed incorrectly and should have been Esther. I have to laugh at some of the weird names Ive found. I tried to convince my husband that his descendant was called Annish...
14:25 Wed 16th Jun 2010
They did have a sense of humour back in those days then?

I'd have called the next one.... Fig.
Their Parents had a sense of humour craft......
I know someone called Seal Flowers.
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rofl....in 1891 they also had Violet and Lily.....
I once interviewed someone called Louise Trees - unfortunate!
I like it - they have a theme going!
I couldnt believe it when I discovered one of our ancestors Easter Liddy Watson married a Mr Christmas, hence it came up on the next census as Easter Christmas. I found out later it had been transcribed incorrectly and should have been Esther. I have to laugh at some of the weird names Ive found. I tried to convince my husband that his descendant was called Annish Watson (Jewish?) and then on reading the census should have been Hannah.
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1881.......Rose
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This family are just weird......the have a boy called Adams (not Adam)
What were the Parents called craft ?
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The father was just called James.....his 2 wives were Annie and Margaret but the names must have been his idea as they continued through the 2 marriages.
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I can't take anymore......he has called 2 of his sons Adonis and Nolana.
My birth name was Trina Woods....

(tree in a woods - geddit?)
I went to school with a girl called Hellen (Hell on) Highwater......I met her years later she told me she'd married and I wasn't to laugh at her new surname - Flood!
Annette Curtain comes to mind.
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Pull yourself together McMouse...
I almost forgot, Justin Time and his lady friend Rose Bush.

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