The Funniest Name in My Family Tree

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Comment by Paula Hinkel on July 31, 2009 at 7:07pm

If Experience Bliss married Manship Spiller, she would be an Experience Spiller.

I can see this is going to get out of hand very quickly.

Comment by Diane Mitchell on July 31, 2009 at 7:00pm

Manship Spiller is a good one. Sorry, Jeanie, trying not to snicker to loud when I tell you this one. Hope Manship doesn't Spiller salad dressing on the one family member that I found on my tree this morning ... Stacey Lettuce -- she's like my 13th great grandmother.

Comment by Jeanie DiLeonardo on July 31, 2009 at 1:46pm

Actually, Manship Spiller wasn't a Quaker. But he was a Southerner.

Comment by Paula Hinkel on July 30, 2009 at 9:07pm

Those Quaker names were a hoot.

Can you imagine the grief a kid named "Manship Spiller" would get these days?? Poor kid.

Comment by Jeanie DiLeonardo on July 30, 2009 at 6:19pm

As my mom would say, "I kid you not!"

Manship Spiller (stop that snickering, now!)

One of my favorites isn't really funny, but amuses me anyway: Union Belle Sanders, born in Louisiana in 1862. See, it's the context. She always seems to have gone by "Belle," by the way.

Comment by Diane Mitchell on July 30, 2009 at 5:27pm

Am doing some more research on my dad's family and found a couple more of these definitely different names to put here. Seems like the more I hunt for branches of the family tree the more interesting names I find.
Waiting Robinson -- wonder what she was waiting for?
Increase Robinson -- Waiting's brother. Hmmm...my mind definitely has a few things running through my mind on HIS name. lol

Comment by Kathleen Fox Allen on July 29, 2009 at 6:17pm

Sorry Paula... I found your group immediately after I posted my discussion along the same lines... oh well!

Comment by Diane Mitchell on July 29, 2009 at 6:03pm

Here's a couple more for you. On one side of my husband's family, we have a family member named Jethro. Hopefully he was a little bit smarter than Jethro from the "Beverly Hillbillies." lol
On the other side of his family tree we have a branch of Crabtree ... no pun intended there. lol

Comment by JC Flynt on July 22, 2009 at 1:11pm

So far:

Casablanca (male)
Roxie May (male...went by the nickname of Jimmy; do we blame him?)
Marmaduke Milton Miles (male)

Comment by Ethel Marie Silcock on July 16, 2009 at 7:17pm

I have 2 ladies named "Thankful Chase" in my tree. And, on my husbands side is a "Dymple Elizabeth Vandiver".

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