Saturday, September 17, 2005

Oddball Names - Zappa was a piker

Thank god my parents weren't brain dead freaks.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

...staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names that turned up in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century.

"My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane," she said.

Other discoveries included Boadicea Basher, Philadelphia Bunnyface, Susan Booze, Elizabeth Disco, Edward Evil, Fozzitt Bonds, Truth Bullock, Charity Chilly, Gentle Fudge, Obedience Ginger and Offspring Gurney.

Levi Jeans was married in Padstow, Cornwall, in 1797.

Other remarkable duos found in the marriage records included Nicholas Bone and Priscilla Skin, joined in wedlock in 1636; Charles Swine and Jane Ham in 1711; John Mutton and Ann Veale in 1791; and Richard Dinner and Mary Cook in 1802.

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