Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Cruel parents or just unlucky? ... Phil Graves is just one of the hilarious real names in new book
SOME parents can be cruel – or down right stupid – when naming their kids. Other people are just born with a surname that makes you titter. Now the funniest have been collected from British records of births, marriages and deaths dating back centuries. Here TIM SPANTON picks out some of the best.
SUE AGE
Born Glasgow, 1849.
PETER PIDDLE
Baptised Fowey, Cornwall, 1649.
ENEMA BOTTOMLEY WOOD
Died Huddersfield, 1904.
SEYMOUR BUST
Born Halstead, Essex, 1841.
PLEASANT TITTY
Baptised Margate, Kent, 1768.
(She was named after her mum — so the family had a pair of Pleasant Tittys.)
SEXEY BUTT
Born Dundry, Somerset, 1803.
EFFING DICK
Born Glasgow, 1848.
WILLY MUSCLE
Born Holme, Huntingdonshire, 1685.
GOLDEN BALLS
Baptised Aylsham, Norfolk, 1813.
KENNETH McSHAGGER
Born Scotland, 1841.
WILLIE STRETCH
Born Winsford, Cheshire, 1894.
NANCY BOYS
Born Brighton, 1842.
MAD LOONEY
Died Warwicks, 1894.
CONSTANT PAIN
Born Hackney, London, 1901.
MINNIE BAR
Baptised Galston, Ayr, 1761.
AL DENTE
Born Whitechapel, London, 1900.
POSTHUMOUS MINCE
Died Greenwich, Kent, 1839.
AGNES ETTA PEPPER
Born Ipswich, 1881.
EASTER BUNNY
Born Yorkshire, 1851.
KITTY LITTER
Born Marston, Cheshire, 1839.
HOLLY BERRY
Born Barnsley, 1880.
PEARLY GATES
Married Westminster, 1996.
RICK O’SHEA
Married Kennington, London, 1864.
SENSITIVE REDHEAD
Born Bridlington, E Yorks, 1873.
JIMMY RIDDLE
Born Melrose, Midlothian, 1648
PETE SAKE
Born Cheshire, 1840.
PECULIAR BUTTERY
Married Wolverhampton, 1871.
ALICE MAY FALL
Born Shoreditch, London, 1894.
NICHOLAS STREAKER
Born Durham, 1747.
LETTICE SPRAY
Baptised Greasley, Notts, 1633.
IRIS TEW
Died Chester, 1985.
DICK BRAIN
Born Stoke-on-Trent, 1871.
TURD COLLAR
Born Ireland, 1821.
TERESA FARTWANGLER
Born Usk, Monmouth, 1828.
PHILIP PLONKER
Baptised Shalford, Surrey, 1632.
WILLY LEAK
Born Poplar, London, 1886.
ANICE BOTTOM
Baptised Dewsbury, W Yorks, 1837.
IVA LONGBOTTOM
Born Balby, S Yorks, 1899.
TRANNIE PICKUP
Born Portsmouth, 1853.
SILLY TROLLOPE
Born Doncaster, 1894.
DICK HANDLER
Baptised Earls Colne, Essex, 1585.
JOYCE MOODY NUTTER
Died Braintree, Essex, 2001.
HUGH SWELLING
Born Ireland, 1811.
PHIL GRAVES
Died Rotherham 1879.
DEMOSTHENES CUPPA
Married London, 1886.
BASIL LEAF
Born York, 1895.
LARGE BEE
Born Notts, 1829.
LOW FEE
Married Chorlton, Cheshire, 1908.
COLLY FLOWER
Father of girl married in Soho, London, 1797.
MAUD STALE BUN
Born Sunderland, 1851.
LOW FAT
Married Cardiff, 1905.
FAY KING
Died Bromley, Kent, 1998.
SANDY BEACH
Born East London, 1899.
DAILY BONER
Born Hernhill, Kent, 1898.
Taken from Potty, Fartwell & Knob, compiled by Russell Ash, Headline £6.99.
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