I was contemplating all the names she who must be obeyed ignored has given me over the years and I must admit most of them are not worthy of repeating. Then I came across poor Fanny Carlsson, from Sweden, who found that the online registration form for Sainsbury’s Nectar card would not accept her first name. That got me researching other unfortunates stuck with names they would rather not have.
So next time you criticise your parents, just be thankful they didn’t curse you with any of these horrors
1. Friendless – Friendless Baxter was born in 1871 in Leeds, West Yorks. LOL one for my peeps I say.
2. Faith Hope Charity – Faith Hope Charity Brown was born in 1892 in Gillingham, Kent. Not one for our household.
3. Leicester Railway – Leicester Railway Cope was born in a train carriage at Leicester Railway Station in 1863.
4. Time Of – Time Of Day was born in Hoo, Kent, in 1899. Hilarious not.
5. One Too Many – One Too Many Gouldstone was born in Walthamstow, London, in 1870. His parents needless to say must have had one too many.
6. Windsor – Windsor Castle was born in Nottingham in 1876. Her father was a bricklayer but never built the castle.
7. Zebra – Zebra Lynes was born in Southampton in 1875. There is no record of her born in a zoo.
8. Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Iug Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Orphelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophen Yetty Zeus Pepper – Ann was born in 1882 in West Derby, Lancs, now Liverpool. The first letters spell out the alphabet (apart from Pepper, which was her real surname).
9. That’s It Who’d Have Thought It – That’s It Who’d Have Thought It Restell was born in Strood, Kent, in 1886. Who’d have thought it indeed!
10. Mineral – Mineral Waters was born in 1892 in Rochford, Essex.
So there you have it and I thought being called Stop It, Come Here, Enough was bad enough. Do you know of any barking mad names?
Have a marvellous Monday all.
