How funny that this would come up. I am reading David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (which I highly recommend). Here is a passage from the section on Sussex (England) naming patterns and hortatory names. "A classic example was an unfortunate young woman named ffly fornication Bull, of Hailsham, Sussex, who was made pregnant in the shop of a yeoman improbably called Goodman Woodman." When I read last week I had never seen "ff" for a name beginning before and then it came up on this list. What timing! Julianne Fishell