In my work I deal with lots of foreigners, mostly Asian. Today I came across the surname "Kakdun". Unfortunatly I never saw the man, so I don't know if he was really that thin. Many years ago I also had a lady by the name of No-orange. Never could find out if it referred to the fruit or the colour. Regards Simone From: malcolm.stevens@upcmail.nl Sent:2013-01-03 20:45:38 To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Cc: Subject: [ZA-EC] Funny and interesting finds in the Cape Civil Death Notices 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message