Names You Wouldn't Want To Be Stuck With

[Brynhild]

I found this funny article about women who marry and what their names have become afterwards.

When it comes to taking a married name, it really is for worse and not for better for some women, a new UK database has found.

Records show more than 50 women became Mary Christmas after their wedding with the first recorded example being Mary Cannon who married in Alton, Hampshire, in 1837.

Other wives who married into unfortunate surnames included Holly Oakes, Eileen Dover and Hazel Nut, according to archives on family history website Findmypast.co.uk.

The website, which has launched the new marriage search system MarriageMatchTM, also found women who became Queenie King, Mona Lott and Jean Pool.

Joy Rider, Lily Pond, Anita Bath, Candy Barr and Kerry Oakey were others among the embarrassing names.

The website also found a real-life Romeo and Juliet, who married in Lambeth, London, in 1971.

Celebrity unions found in the marriage index included actor Jude Law and Sadie Frost in 1997, and Kate Winslet and Jim Threapleton in 1998.
Records revealed Lancashire was the top county to marry in, with 11.66 million records listed between 1837 and 2005, while Birmingham was the most popular marrying town or city.

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The above is just an example of the more unfortunate names. A few I can think of are Richard (Dick) Head, some poor child was called Topsy Turvy. An acronym I noticed of a friend whose son was named Ross Alexander Murphy - RAM for short, or Cecil Robert Alan Pye - CRAP.

Apart from the more comical names you hear like Teresa Green, Ben Dover or Isabel really necessary on a bike, what other bizarre names might you have heard?

[Grumpy Cat]

Well, I used to work with a guy named Shithead (pronounced Sha-theed). Felt sorry for the guy.

[2DREZQ]

I ran into a fellow several years back whose Grandmother was Ella Funte (or Phunt, not sure which).

There was a butcher in a nearby town when I was little whose name was Balzer Freisen.

How about an old gent named Harold A. Houle?

I saw an obit yesterday for Adam J. Adam. Doesn't say much for his parents creativity, does it? Either that, or they had trouble with the Last Name First part of the hospital forms.

[Wyn]

Fanny Brown.

[Pallantides]

Roy-Arnie, Raymond, Tommy, Johnny, Ronny, Harry, Roger, Roy and Frank.


In Norway that is typical names for criminals and junkies.

[Sahson]

I know of a Peter File.

[Svipdag]

I have been told that the Lear family has a daughter named Crystal. Alright so far, but her middle name is Shanda. Crystal Shanda Lear. Some time ago, I ran across the name Fleetus L. Gobble, jr. If you were named Fleetus L. Gobble, would you inflict that name on your son ? And, how about Lispenard
Pfister ? That's a real name; he's a lawyer.

[Cato]

Dick Cox.

[2DREZQ]

Mohammed

Of course, noone would know what I look like.

[Grumpy Cat]

I once saw a political campaign ad for Dick Sweat for Congress.