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 >

On 4 Jun 2010 at 6:53, Wendy Evans wrote: > And don't forget that John Wayne's real name was Marion Michael > Morrison. > And Doris Day was born as Doris Kappelhoff, Boris Karloff as William Henry Pratt, Marilyn Monroe as Norma Jean Baker, Michael Caine as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite and Diana Dors as Diana Fluck. But my favourite movie star name is Herbert Lom - the mad Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movies - who was born in Czechoslovakia as Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru. Too long to fit on a cinema bill, would you say? -- 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