Have the members of this list forgotten Bristol's own "Archibald Leach aka Cary Grant", what does the inscription on his statue read. As I live here in sunny Brisbane Qld Aus and have not been back to visit Bristol since 1996, I am not able to look at it to see Barbara BNE QLD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Evans" <wev70950@bigpond.net.au> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 6:53 AM Subject: Re: [B&D] Unusual names and our reactions to them > And don't forget that John Wayne's real name was Marion Michael Morrison. > > Regards > Wendy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> > To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 4:41 AM > Subject: Re: [B&D] Unusual names and our reactions to them > > >> On 3 Jun 2010 at 12:10, Diana Robinson wrote: >> >>> I wonder if the advantage of an unusual names when the person was >>> grown may have been counter-acted by the emotional damage done to many >>> of them during their school years - children can be so cruel. > >> >> Well, if you believe the supposed theory behind the famous Johnny Cash >> song, A Boy >> Named Sue, it simply made them tougher! >> >> Over here we had a famous wrestler called Big Daddy, a 24-stone >> Yorkshireman >> whose real name was Shirley Crabtree. When he died a few years back the >> national >> papers claimed in his obituary that his father had called him Shirley >> because it would >> make him a fighter. This was rubbish! I knew him when I was a young >> journalist and >> Shirley was a family surname used as a forename - it was his dad's name >> as >> well. >> >>> I noticed that someone included Shannon as a name that could cause >>> problems, but that is a quite common name for girls in the U.S. > >> >> The 1881 census of England and Wales has only five people with the >> forename >> Shannon and four of them were male. >> >> -- >> Roy Stockdill >> Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer >> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: >> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html >> >> "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, >> and that is not being talked about." >> OSCAR WILDE >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

--- On Thu, 3/6/10, Barbara Robinson <bro51909@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Have the members of this list > forgotten Bristol's own "Archibald Leach aka > Cary Grant", what does the inscription on his statue read. > > As I live here in sunny Brisbane Qld Aus and have not been > back to visit > Bristol since 1996, I am not able to look at it to see Hi Barbara, There is a picture of the statue on Wikipedia on the page about Fairfield Secondary School, where Archie Leach was in the same class as my Dad, but you can't see the inscription. According to the same article, the aircraft designer, Archibald Russell was a contemporary of theirs at Fairfield, yet my Dad never mentioned this although the Russells lived in the same street as us in Stoke Bishop and I went to school with his son, Julian, until I was 8. Talking of strange names, my grandfather hated his name, Joseph James STOBO Hind. Jacky ======================================================================== Jacky Jackson-Cox Personal web page: http://www.btinternet.com/~jacky3/ Last updated 23/05/2010