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Thread #67769   Message #1135977
Posted By: Roger the Skiffler
14-Mar-04 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: What's in your name?
Subject: RE: BS: What's in your name?
My surname comes from a village in Cheshire from which my g-g-pa migrated to the City of a Thousand Trades seeking employment. It is anglo-saxon in origin and means "The field where the shrike nests". The shrike being the "butcher bird" of course.
I seem to remember "Roger" means "valiant spear" or summat, inappropriate for a pacifist!

RtS