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Boys names - a game for you all.

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seeker · 13/11/2008 20:24

OK, I'm bored - my children are watching Top Gear for the 91st time and dp's away and I have 50 Pudsey Bear biscuits to decorate and I don't want to.

My father was born in 1918. His name was one that I have only heard 3 times in my life apart from Pa. One man, one woman, one still alive, one Victorian.

Any guesses?

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Original poster
seeker · 13/11/2008 20:25

Oh, and both in public life - I've never actually met another personally.

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Jajas · 13/11/2008 20:26

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LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:26

Boris

RubySlippers · 13/11/2008 20:27

Aloysius

RubySlippers · 13/11/2008 20:28

wallace

LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:30

Morgan

madrush · 13/11/2008 20:30

Horatio

LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:31

Hilary

LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:33

Dorian!

PuppyMonkey · 13/11/2008 20:33

My dad (born in Ireland 1916) was called Dawson. I only ever heard it again on Dawson's Creek in the 90s. Is it Dawson...?

choccyp1g · 13/11/2008 20:34

Aubrey?

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seeker · 13/11/2008 20:35

Loving the idea of a girl called Boris! Or Horatio - very Blackadder!

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LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:35

Ainsley.

maretta · 13/11/2008 20:36

Is it the woman who's still alive. Are they still active in public life.

maretta · 13/11/2008 20:41

I bet, when you do reveal, there's a flurry of posts of people who were at school with an 'x'. Always the way.

Mind you, i had a (white english), greatish granmother called Argentine. I've yet to hear of another of those.

maretta · 13/11/2008 20:43

Monserrat

Original poster
seeker · 13/11/2008 20:46

Yes it's the woman that's still alive. No one's near yet. Bizarrely, not even the first initial letter.

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EachPeachPearMum · 13/11/2008 20:47

Ridley

Wallace · 13/11/2008 20:48

Dignam

LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 20:50

Gabriel

maretta · 13/11/2008 20:51

I can't think of many Victorains and none of them have very unisex names - charles, florence, benjamin, isambard, albert, william - I think not.

maretta · 13/11/2008 21:07

Clovis
Wallace

FiveGoMadInDorset · 13/11/2008 21:10

bumping to top of active convos, no suggestions though just waiting for the answer.

LynetteScavo · 13/11/2008 21:12

Gaye

Lio · 13/11/2008 21:14

No suggestions but posting so that I can keep track of it. MUST know the answer!