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LONDON (AP) - Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus. Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records.

The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries.

Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found 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, Faithful Cock, 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 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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Bloody hell, I live on one weird little island :blink: :unsure:

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Indeedy. :)

And think...whomever named these people most likely has access to power tools and heavy machinary. That should make you feel all comfy. :blink:

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Oh those are wonderful. :)

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sounds like 90% of the "from" field in my spam box :D

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What? No Brandywines or Tooks?

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:bustingup

(I have a migraine and I'm fighting back by using the "busting up" smilie as often as possible. I might not be able to perform that action at the moment - my head would fall off - but thankfully, I've got the little smilie guy to express my humor!)

XxXotic...that is *so* true!! I can't get over the names they're using!! The total butchery of the English language in the "subject" line bugs the hell out of me, but the names are priceless!


PornoDoggy...I imagine that at some point, cooler heads said "OK, you can stop now!" on the length of the article. I imagine it was amazing fun to research. From a parental standpoint, though, I can not comprehend saddling a child with some of those names. (They *had* to be naming them after extremely rich relatives.)

My mother hated her own name so much that when I was just a child she said "If you ever name a daughter after me, I'll kill you." Nothing ambivalent, there. :) I personally couldn't stand my mother's mother's name, but I adored my great-grandmother's name. It's definitely a matter of taste, though, so I picked a nice, normal, often found middle name for her. (The name of the woman who came to get her sister so that her father could be in the delivery room when she was born.) Upshot of this entire true life overshare is that...my daughter hates her middle name even more than she hates her first name, which is considerably. So...parents can't win. :)

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I knew one of Nick's ancestors' would turn up. :D

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LMFAO!!!!!! Oh god how true...
I can't believe people actually HAD those names... the Skin and Bone marriage was the point where I completely lost it, and then I saw this and couldn't stop laughing. :)

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My godson went to school with the following in England.

Jack Russel
Kentish Barnes.

Seriously...

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Oh and my sister was born in the 40s...but her first name is "Starr".

That must have been pretty damn daring then. LOL

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Oh my, those are great. I like "Faithful Cock" LOL

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and finally on names....

Back in the day I realised that one of the very first thing people did when they casme online was search for errr themselves.Newbies!!! First time online!! Lovely jubbly!! :)

Ie John Smith would go to AV and search for "John Smith"

So...We had dynamics that combined the most popular top 500 First names with the 500 most common surnames.

Got number 1 for hundreds lol...and it would read...

"" "John Smith , do you know what we know about you........."

WE know you'd love a free trial at cybererotica!!!"""

:)

Unfortunately the template we ummm borrowed was a page of a top listed realtor in Kentucky.( or somewhere) It worked brilliantly as a "2 word" template.

Our cloaking fucked up...so...

He was very upset when he found 10000s of SE pages that read... "Paul Smithers the leading *anal slut* in Kentucky"

or

Paul Smithers the leading *cocksucking whore* in Kentucky.

:)

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omg hahahaha.... that just had me laugh so hard I hurt my abdominal muscle *laughs* (could've just been the way I was sitting too though)

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That deserves three of these guys http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/sm...tingupNEW3.gif http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/sm...tingupNEW3.gif http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/sm...tingupNEW3.gif