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DEAD SILLY
Independent on Sunday, The, Feb 18, 2007 by David Randall
The Cornwall Record Office has kindly compiled a list of all the silly names unearthed by family history sleuths. Our favourites include: Orrange Almond (1808), Narcissus Backway (1728), Boadicea Basher (1881), Absolom Beagle-hole (1841), Fozzitt Bonds (1690), Honour Bound (d. 1783), Philadelphia Bunny-face (d.1722), Fanny Cobbledick (1832), Noah Flood (d.1741), Fred Friskey (1582), Horatio Hornblower (1841), James Jam (1772), Kitty Jealous (1808), Olympia Lark (1764), Fanny Moody Manners (1940), Ostrich Pockinghorn (1792), Elizabeth Poo (1814), Fanny Scum (1805), Martha Splat (1673), Thomas Tank (1792), and Clobery Silly Woolcock (1848).
But best of all is the person recorded as marrying in Padstow in 1797 - Levi Jeans.
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