There's a Civil Servant in London who rejoices in the name of Locksley Trype. Honest!!

I'm ploughing through some family records again, and some of the names I came across 20 years ago are still funny now.

How about Erasmus Cox?
Amaziah and Jane Payne?
How about Ms Fanny Hunt?

Adonizah Zealley was a jolly sounding chap, but not as enthusiastic as Joel Rocket.

Eli Pester should have chosen a little more sensitively when he married Hester...

Keturah Bartlett How, Sunecai Genteelei, Penninah Charity Scard, Tirzah Fever and Speaze Tizzard should have been given the option of changing names, as should Zibich, Obidiah, Barzilla and Bathsheba Hodder.

Then there are the ones that are just so appropriate:~
Francis Goforth, vicar; Maudlin Dampney; Noah Gallop; Hipolett Mockett; Unity Abbot and Christian Gibbons.

Parthena Staple and Apsalome Whittle Wills are pretty out there, but the biscuity type prize really should go to Arabella Gerina Bachatina Megal Govin - that's all one person!

Honestly, these are all genuine names that I've gleaned out of parish records from Dorset, a rural county where coming from 30 miles away is considered foreign!

LTS - who got off remarkably lightly with her names!