General Chat

It makes me smile when I find funny names in my tree - Fanny Adcock etc.
The funniest marriage found is an Elizabeth Snow married a Henry Ball - yes they had plenty of little 'SnowBalls'! :-D
Come on...I bet you all found better ones than those?

How about one of mine Fanny Grummitt

a few I found on the census

Charity Box
Easter Sunday
Christmas Day
Fanny Bald
Fanny Damp
Fanny Brown
Peal Gates

Winifred A Hoare - a gg aunt.

In Corfe museum last week, a knitter in 1881 was called Mary Shitley.
As I said to my 11 year old grand daughter - 'Unusual surname - never heard it before - probably extinct now' :-D

Another name I have never heard of in my lifetime is that of my gggg grandmother - Scraggleford!!

Oh yes - keep them names rolling in. They are really funny

I also found the surname Branch on my grandmothers side, fancy having Branches in my tree!!!

I'm always coming across Fanny Hare.

Unfortunately I can't place her on my tree :-D

I have Norah Hatfull

:-) Lesley

She's on my tree

I'm not related to her.... but I HAD to have the name on my tree! Her sister's grandchildren married into my lot (something like that).

Nellie Follows. Whom I wonder :-S :-D

My favourite is Clarettina Crumpthorn.
Found het many years ago, but she still gives me a giggle.
What were her parents thinking of?

I have a Christmas Branch in my tree. :-D

Wiffin Salmon
Raisin Plumb
Fanny Wragg (in my husbands tree)thankgod not mine!
Fanny B Slack

Fanny Slapp 1877 daughter of Christmas Slapp 1838.
Some Christmas present that would have been!

Not all in my tree but had me in stitches at the time I came across them.

Maryb

Not on my tree, but someone else told me about it:

GLADYS FRIDAY

That could still prove popular these days!

LadyScozz I am sooooooooooo jealous :-( ;-)

My neice's wonderful Fanny Hole..............poor soul never did marry and spent her life in service :-(

My gran never said who my dad's dad was.
However, she was brought up, for a period of her life by her aunt, who married a Mr Gay, and had a few sons, one of whom was 2 years younger than my gran.

It was fortunate that my brother knew about the Gay family, as, at gran's funeral, a man who he didn't know, came up to my brother (who, like my gran and dad has piercing blue eyes) and said:
'You have Gay eyes'

I think I may know, from this one comment who my dad's father was!!

One of the Gay ancestors (a boy) was named

Brighton Gay!!

i have fanny airey in my tree ;-)

John Thomas Mycock, born 1900 in Sheffield. He was the son of Aaron Mycock.

Aaron Mycock was the son of Aaron Mycock and Eliza Ball.

My husband has a Fanny Pink on his side.

M

I can claim a fanny fox.