Strange Surnames

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Used to work in customer services. Three surnames have never left my brain:
Mrs Wildgoose
Mr Gotobed
Mr and Mrs D’eath.

Please share the weird and wonderful surnames you own or have heard. Apologies if your surname is one I’ve listed.

I used to have a work contact (police) called DS Thundercloud

I once met a man called Mr Cakebread.

I've worked with a Whiffen, a Staines and a Smelt. All fairly unsavoury sounding!

DH once knew a guy called Billy Bastable. He was known as Billy the Bastard

Bedggood (he was )

My school had teachers called Venus and Fallas.

I knew a Mrs Merry 😊

Mr A Bastard - in the phone book, too. Why would you not be ex directory at the least!?! Pronounced buh-staaard, apparently.

Also went to school with Chris Peacock. Also DD had an emergency Dr called C.Hunt sign her prescription. I even have a screen shot of that somewhere as sent it to my DB in a fit of childish glee

I went to school with Annette Curten.

I kid you not

@VienneseWhirligig

I've worked with a Whiffen, a Staines and a Smelt. All fairly unsavoury sounding!

DH once knew a guy called Billy Bastable. He was known as Billy the Bastard

I have a distant Victorian ancestor with the surname Smelt. Her first name was Fanny

Anette Curten... Crying here! Love it. Nothing but sympathy for Ms Smelt, though!

I have heard of Hardmeat and Onions as surnames.

@IRememberMySpaceBabe I've got a Fanny Tremble 😁

I've seen a Gotobed in the wild. My favourite overall name was a colleague called Preston Hazzard. I always mentally added after his name "Man of action!"

I had a teacher called Mrs Willy

I lived next door to Mr Cock. Always wondered if he’d ever thought about a name change!

Mr and Mrs Handyside

Villain is a surname iirc. There was a very odd surname on the news last night but I can't remember it...

Dr Smellie

@chipsandgin

I lived next door to Mr Cock. Always wondered if he’d ever thought about a name change!

I met a Mr Cock once. Wasn't there an MP called Cocks some years ago?

There's a local tradesman with Godbehere for a surname.

@ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun Fanny Tremble

@AdoptedBumpkin Hardmeat and Onions sounds like a firm of solicitors from a Dickens novel! I’ve done a fair bit of family history, another surname I’ve just remembered (sadly not my ancestor this time) which is sweetly unusual is Snowball

At school we had Miss Munday and Miss Friday. Miss Friday’s initials were P.M.

In work we had my favourite named client ever: Colonel Dick Everard. I kid you not. Also two doctors who were friends, I believe: Dr Grabham and Dr Batteram.

The law lords often have fantastic names: Lord Jauncey of Tulichettle. I’m also fond of Lord Justice Laws and Judge Judge.

New Scientist often do little bits on nominative determinism - worth a Google!

They do actually don't they?

There are loads of surnames that make me snigger in a childish manner:

Hore
Beavers
Dick
Rimmer

I also knew an A. Ness

I have met a Mr S Allcock, fortunately for him his parents chose a middle name that did not begin with an M.
Also used to know of a Mr Chicken, and as a kid thought the surname Winterbottom was hilarious