Financial surnames

Dental Surgeon here named Cutright. Did it wrong once, removed 2 perfectly good front teeth on the wrong Patient.

Hi, I don't know if it counts, but my mum called me a "daft ha'p'orth" a few times when I was a kid, and she was probably right.

Regards Nick.

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I never give any thought to the meaning/derivation of my own surname when giving it nor to other peoples' when I meet them. With so many non-anglo-saxons in my acquaintance now I wonder how many have equivalent connotations of occupation/lineage etc as the ones I can understand.
Many of the oddities in UK names and spellings were introduced in the 18th century when barely literate clergy started to make written records of births and marriages and had to interpret local accents to put on paper for the very first time a family's name. It then became their legal identity to be copied when a later generation finally learned to write more than just an X. Records sometimes show changes is a name as a succeeding cleric struggled to read/write and created a new version.

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I once taught a family whose surname was Bush. 5 girls and, at last for mum, a son who dad named Oliver.

He had a good sense of humour and named the girls Rose, May, Holly, Ivy and Hazel.

Some 10 years later I was accosted in the local supermarket by a very attractive young lady who said …… look at me …I,m all grown up now. … I married a man called Tree.

I remember a local lass called Sharon Ballsworthy. Another, who became a teacher, called Betty Crapps., a pupil called Richard Head

Parents may or may not recognise the effects of names they choose for their children. The composer Vincent Knight named his daughter Stella and not shying away from it she deliberately lives in Knightsbridge. However a colleague at work named Peter whose surname began with E perpetuated the schooldays pain by calling his son Paul.

I once knew a lady called Teresa Green.

Hi Anthony

I went to primary school with a Teresa Green, Orpington , Kent, about 1963-68, obviously her maiden name!

There was a Dental practice there and two of the dentists nameson the brass plate outside were Dr Puller and Dr Blood.

Dave

Our local Skoda dealer was called Clist and Rattle.

Local Charted Accountants near me:-

Keen Dicey Grover

always amuses me as I pass their office.

John

When I was a kid my dad used to always point out the sign on the local shopping centre:

C. WRIGHT -- OPTICIAN

Our local dentist was Dr Crapp, who eventually changed his family's name to Craig. His son who went to our school was forever known as Crappy though.

I use to have a Doctor who has now retired His name was Pratt, however he was the old type doctor who was very good nothing was too small unless he knew they where just after a sick note to get time off

Hi there, all,

Back in the 1960s one of our diving club members was a young woman who had moved down from the Midlands to a London suburb. She happened to have the same surname as the local diary and both she and the dairy had accounts at the same bank (NOT the Midland). This was in the days when banking depended upon manual ledger entries.

The first time the bank debited her account with the dairy's payroll was a bit of a shock, not really compensated for by a later credit to her account of the dairy's entire week's takings. These were not one-off errors!

Eventually they both learned to live with it!!

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

This thread has drifted somewhat, so I'll add Wright Hassall, the old established (175 years) firm of solicitors in Leamington Spa.

Hi, my mum always used to say she needed to spend a penny whenever she needed the loo, this of course stems from the days when woman had to always spend a penny in a public convenience. This reminds me of a short poem I once read written inside a school desk; "As I sit here broken hearted, paid a penny! and only fa###d"

Regards Nick.

I knew a Cliff Edge, Mr C. Edge

Off topic with the toilet humour reminds me of the doggerel in 'Verse and Worse'

Ode to a lady with two ha'pence for a penny

Look lady, follow Olive Snell,
To whom your accident befell.
When Olive went to spend a penny
she searched her bag and just had one.
But that was bent, so what she done?
She went and found a spinny shady
and saved herself the penny, Lady.

Although there is a better and longer version here
https://monologues.co.uk/Cyril_Fletcher/Sonia-Snell.htm

pgk

Which further reminds me of graffiti I saw many years ago on a condom machine when they were first installed (in mens' bogs):

"Buy me and stop one"

Not a great fan of graffiti usually but that gave me a chuckle. Is Wall's still going?