Hi Listers While transcribing Cape Civil Death Notices through the FamilySearch website I have come across numerous funny / interesting death notices. I don't keep a copy of all of them but every now and then I save some for posterity. I thought I'd share some of these with you: Regards Malcolm Funny First Names: * Banana * Bicycle * Bigboy * Breakfast (I have 3 of them so far!) * Columbus * Congress * Cumming (Sorry folks) * Fourpence * Magnesia * Mentor * Mountain * Nochance * Patrol * Rinderpest * Robber * Smile * French * Sweden * Sweetness * Ditch * Dummy * Whiskey Funny Surnames: * Violet Dumdum Funny name cobo's : * Sam Samsam * Templar Night * Tom Kafir (Apologies for any offence) Interesting occupations / death: * Della Klaas who was listed as a prostitute in Grahamstown in 1900; cause of death was "accidental suffocation by cape strings whilst drunk and having intercourse with a man" * Jim Chuss John who was struck by lightning