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[Rugster]

4 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

I once had a neighbour called Andrewina. Make of that what you will…

 

 

[German Jag]

15 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

I once had a neighbour called Andrewina. Make of that what you will…

I‘ll see your Andrewina and raise you a Rudolfina. (Was assistant to the CEO etc. 20 years ago. Her colloquial name was Susie). 

Edited May 19, 2023 by German Jag

[HibeeJibee]

24 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

My wife's two boys have her father (eldest) and then the father's father (second boy) as middle names.

Eldest daughter named after wife's mother, middle name father's mother. Second daughter named after father's mother. Middle name wife's name Next girl - name plucked out of thin air as far as I can see, middle name feminised version of her father's nickname. Youngest daughter named after my wife's aunt/great aunt. Middle name after wife's sister (and an aunt).

Next door neighbour's eldest child is called Roberta. Guess what his name is?

When I lived in Coleraine landlady's mother was Ina, but can't remember if she was Thomasina or Williamina.

Just looked out my own family tree on my father's side which I got back into 1700s without many gaps.

Tallying-up my direct ancestor each generation (plus their wives), their brother & sisters and nieces & nephews:

... out of 46 men there are only 10 different first names
... more than half were Robert, David or Alexander

... out of 52 women there are only 15 different first names
... almost two-thirds were Elizabeth (including a pair of Elizas), Isabella, Agnes or Mary

... of 22 middle names 18 were reused surnames (including 2 with a pair), just 2 first names, and 2 a pair from each

Poignantly among them Henry (born 1857 in Scotland) and his brother Henry (born 1860 in New Zealand).

[GordonD]

1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

I once had a neighbour called Andrewina. Make of that what you will…

My former boss's mother (who worked in the same office) was called Andrewrina. Apparently she was supposed to be named Andrena (her grandfather was Andrew) but her dad and grandad were pished when they went to register her birth and got it slightly wrong. She refused to use it and would only answer to Rina.

[BFTD]

Just occurred to me that, had Andy Pandy become king, he'd have been Andrew Rex, so we could've called him Andrex.

Sorry, carry on.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

[HibeeJibee]

Occurs to me the names stuff may have been even worse in the sixteenth century considering all of Mary Queen of Scots ladies-in-waiting were called Mary and all of John Knox's colleagues at the inaugural General Assembly were called John.

[Wee-Bey]

And so it begins...

 

[Venti]

52 minutes ago, Marlo Stanfield said:

And so it begins...

 

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[TxRover]

13 hours ago, hk blues said:

 

Where I am all children are given their mother's maiden name as their middle name.  When a women get's married she changes here middle name from mother's maiden to her maiden.  Illegitimate children are not given a middle name which kinda sucks.

Strange…in the U.S., especially in the South, until the 80’s, it was common for a woman to move her maiden name to her middle name when she got married.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 minute ago, TxRover said:

Strange…in the U.S., especially in the South, until the 80’s, it was common for a woman to move her maiden name to her middle name when she got married.

Must be a load of Klan's on the go.

[SlipperyP]

8 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

Not sure if reading that before my tea was a good idea...

At least it's not fish.

But it's Friday....big team found.

 

[hk blues]

3 hours ago, TxRover said:

Strange…in the U.S., especially in the South, until the 80’s, it was common for a woman to move her maiden name to her middle name when she got married.

Here it's not a choice, it's prescribed. Basically, only the Christian name is optional in the Philippines, middle names and family names are prescribed.  There is the possibility to change a name but the statute seems to suggest this process is in place to enable an error in the birth certificate to be corrected.  My wife had to do this as her birth certificate had her middle name misspelled - her passport however was correct so begging the question how carefully the check documents when issuing passports! My son also has an issue in that his original birth certificate from Hong Kong has no middle name (I didn't intend to give him one) yet his Filipino birth registration and thus passport have a middle name under the prescribed system. 

[Swarley]

15 hours ago, bennett said:

 

 

Don't give up the day job! 

[SlipperyP]

6 hours ago, Marlo Stanfield said:

And so it begins...

 

The new modelled German U-Boat IMO. Cheap shots at r merchant navy again.

Reason food prises are sky high in the UK. If this keeps up, expect ration books in the near future.

[hk blues]

Just got a text message from the tax office here to say I can pick up my cheque (aye, text message and cheque) anytime next week.  Only took 5 years!

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Marlo Stanfield said:

And so it begins...

 

I for one welcome our new whale overlords, they can't f**k it up any more than we have.

[SlipperyP]

55 minutes ago, Empty It said:

I for one welcome our new whale overlords, they can't f**k it up any more than we have.

Before they take over, I would like them to get round the table about the prisoner exchange process that they seemed to have ignored. 

[Venti]

The Burbs on c5 at 14:10

Classic.

"Sardine?"

[Spring Onion]

13 minutes ago, Venti said:

The Burbs on c5 at 14:10

Classic.

"Sardine?"

Now they know that we know that they know that we know.