Silly Cornish Names......

[patgund]

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=13762

To be fair, some of these names go back to the 1500's. Still.....

Names like:

WESLEY MENDELSSOHN VALATART BARRETT the V.
ORCHARD BETOWING CHAMPION,
SHADRACH MESBACH ABEDNEGO CLARK
EMILY GRACE PYNE COFFIN,
LOVEDEVINA MARGARETTA COUCH
ADMONITION ABBOTT
DARK ADAM
ORRANGE ALMOND
PETRONELL BUNNY
NYOT DOUBT
FOSCURINUS TURTLUFF DYER
GUY GUY
JOYOUS ROBERT
FESTUS ROBERTS
ZAPHNATHPAANEAH SAUNDERS
THOMAS TANK (Married 1792)
FREAK USTICK
CLOBERY SILLY WOOLCOCK

Comments

[jnork.livejournal.com]

Crystal Chanda Lear?

It's not Cornish.

[jnork.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's Shanda, not Chanda.

Still.

[jnork.livejournal.com]

And I meant to say, "It's not JUST the Cornish." Wow, I think I need to go home and relax.

[jnork.livejournal.com]

And more.

Enjoy.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I need to share my Cornish name books with you some time. We could come up with some Pure Evil for the April 1 Letter of Intent, always a cavalcade of goofy but completely documentable names and devices.

There was my entry one time, that Saxon Saracen with Scurvy, Sitric Assid....