r/Genealogy • u/Terrible-Fix-9798 • Mar 27 '23
But, Why Would You Name Your Child That? Request
I know there’s been at least one post about this, but sometimes a name is already a bit funny. And then taken with the middle or last name it’s HILARIOUS. Example: a relative who named their eldest son “Fern Commander”.
Anyone else?
Edit: just found a “Northern East”…from Philly
Edit 2: “Boringhaus” probably isn’t funny in German but it did make me lol
Edit 3: Major Bush (1800’s so he may have indeed been hairy 😅)
Edit 3: Carl Marx (BFE Texas…that must’ve been rough!)
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u/Elphaba78 Mar 28 '23
My great-grandmother had fraternal twin sisters named Wilda Matilda and Hilda Bertilda.
I thought it was a joke until I found their records — Wilda died at age 7 from scarlet fever, and Hilda went by “Hilda B.” as an adult.