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Monday, September 12, 2005

Philadelphia Bunnyface and Gentle Fudge

AP reports:

[T]he 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.

And, as the article notes, there really was a Horatio Hornblower whose siblings were named, Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus.

Read about it here.


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