museumtom Posted 27 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 27 February , 2006 I am surprised at the amount of interest in this little posting of mine but there you go. Now for my confession................ my full name is; Thomas Michael Anthony John Burnell so I am not in a position to comment........ Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie Posted 27 February , 2006 Share Posted 27 February , 2006 Some families her in Oz have a tradition of keeping one particular name running through the male generation. One I know of is Augustus. This one goes back at least five generations. Another tradition is if a relative died in WW1 then his name is carried on through the family. Cheers Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 With regards to the RAF, a seagull is aircrew that will only go flying if you throw stones at him/her. Roxy just see how the language evolves! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 I am surprised at the amount of interest in this little posting of mine but there you go. Now for my confession................ my full name is; Thomas Michael Anthony John Burnell so I am not in a position to comment........ Tom. My son is the only one of my four offspring with three Christian names: numbers two and three to keep both grandfathers on board, and in case he rowed for Cambridge, where the initials would look good on his kit. Returning to the Great War, an officer commissioned from the ranks into RWF had very politically correct names 'to get on' namely Henry Edward George. There's foresight for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 I've always liked the name of the author of "Sniping in France" - Maj. Hesketh Hesketh-Pritchard. I find it very difficult to say. And try saying that with a mouthful of bully beef and biscuits! Fascinating thread this. I noticed a while ago while searching for something else at CWGC, that were a number with the surname Death, or De'ath, wonder if they felt already ill fated going into action? The very first time I flew and clearly visible to all those with a cabin seat on that side of the plane was the word DE'ATH painted in large black letters on the top of a light aircraft on the runway. Not a comforting sight! Must have been the owners surname Caryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 try Pine-Coffin for size. Genuine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 And can anyone come up with a quadruple-barrelled surname. My best shot is William Henry Cullen Pery-Knox-Gore, the machine gun expert of 2RWF, who transferred to MGC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geoff501 Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 And can anyone come up with a quadruple-barrelled surname. I posted one earlier. Another, is the son of a Danish Count: Pte. 73446 KRAG-JUEL-VIND-FRIJS, OVE Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 "try Pine-Coffin for size. Genuine" There was a major called Mike Pine-Coffin serving in the late 80s; think he was an infantryman but not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Clay Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 "try Pine-Coffin for size. Genuine" There was a major called Mike Pine-Coffin serving in the late 80s; think he was an infantryman but not sure And, far-removed from the Great War, there was a curator in the British Library with this same monniker in the 70s. There's a bit about the Pine-Coffin family here. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofatfortakeoff Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 My own favourite is Leo de Oriellana -Tollemache Tollemache of the 1st Lincolns killed in action 1914 I think most of em used a shortened version. Some took their names from places In the case of George Robert Marmaduke Stanbury-Taylor the Stanbury came from where he was born. Was it PG Woodhouse said that a double barrel name was the badge of mediocrity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 There was a spate of double-barrelling in Victorian times: I believe it stemmed from the wife's side wishing their family name to be perpetuated. This could be done formally, I believe, by application to the courts. Cannot find my reference, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 aha! from Wikipedia: the surname of the extinct family of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos was the quintuple-barrelled Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville. Corporal, Home Guard, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 and: If you wish to legally change your name, or your children's names, you can use the Deed Poll process, which has been used by hundreds of thousands of people for over 150 years. By Deed Poll, you can officially change any part or all of your name. For example, you can change your forenames, surname (or both), add names, remove names, change the spelling of your names or rearrange your existing names. You can change your name by Deed Poll as often as you want, at any time and for any reason provided it is not for deceptive or fraudulent purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 and: If you wish to legally change your name, or your children's names, you can use the Deed Poll process, which has been used by hundreds of thousands of people for over 150 years. By Deed Poll, you can officially change any part or all of your name. For example, you can change your forenames, surname (or both), add names, remove names, change the spelling of your names or rearrange your existing names. You can change your name by Deed Poll as often as you want, at any time and for any reason provided it is not for deceptive or fraudulent purposes. And you will find that instead of being "Freddy Mercury", in the event of a serious crime you will be charged as "Joe Bloggs" the name you were registered with at birth according to the 1937 act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 I came across a family name, which made me smile. It was Crook-Lawless IIRC it is in the 1920 edition of 'Burke's Peerage'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 I had no idea Freddie was charged with a serious crime, but Joe Bloggs is always up before the beaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geoff501 Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 Was it PG Woodhouse said that a double barrel name was the badge of mediocrity? Might have been PG Wodehouse. Whatever, this chap below did not think so. Wonder if they called him 'Bertie' ? Must get back to the real business finding of T. Williams and Fred Smith...... Name: FEATHERSTONEHAUGH-WOOSTER, ROBERT ALBERT Initials: R A Nationality: Australian Rank: Private Regiment: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit Text: 43rd Bn. Age: 31 Date of Death: 04/10/1917 Service No: 2809 Additional Information: Son of Henry and Annie Cora Featherstonehaugh-Wooster, of 200, Rowe St., Railway Town, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Native of Adelaide. Casuality Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31. Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofatfortakeoff Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 Corporal, Home Guard, surely? Brigadier General Robert Byron Drury Blakeney Royal Engineers Founder member of the balloon corps and British Fascisti 1926-1927 Home Guard 1940! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 28 February , 2006 Share Posted 28 February , 2006 And then there is the Londonderrys The Rt Hon the 7th Marquess of Londonderry,namely: Sir Charles Stewart Henry Vane -Tempest-Stewart Secretary of State for Air. 1920-21 Educated at Eton and Sandhurst ADC to Lieut General Sir W Pulteney August 1914-August 1915 2nd in Command RH Guards. August 1915. ( MID twice) Made an utter fool of himself as a member of the prewar Hitler appeasement gang and as an apologist for Hitler's Germany,a view opposed throughout by his cousin, WSC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Banning Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 Just stumbled on to this post. I was a bit gutted that my particular fave, LORD IAN BASIL GAWEN TEMPLE HAMILTON-TEMPLE BLACKWOOD has already been mentioned. However, with regard to names being in vogue (see Brooklyn, Britney etc today), I recall Richard van Emden's Boy Soldiers book mentioning that he had come across many names of soldiers related to nationalisim & patriotism at that time. Many chose names from military leaders in or places the Boer War. Examples given are: Baden Powell Mafeking Baden Baden Mafeking Mafeking Ladysmith Redvers Bullers Roberts Modder River Spion Kop (the poor kid was named James Spion Kop Skinner) Bloemfontein Majuba Transvaal Stromberg He also says how during Queen Victoria's Jubilee years calling your new daughter Victoria increased fourteenfold. The word 'Jubilee' was also used as a middle name. All on Pg. 11-12 of his book. I guess that these trends exist today, it is just that society tends to focus on celebrity as opposed to patriotic or campaign names. Bit gutted about this as my wife and I were hoping that when our first one is born to call it Fallujah, Basra or my particular favourite - Sunni Triangle.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 One of my mother's close friends had the first name Jubilee as she was born in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 not to mention the TV character James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick. One of Frank Richards's adoptive brothers was Redvers, b. 1901. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barry Owen Posted 8 March , 2006 Share Posted 8 March , 2006 I used to work with a chap called Percy Joffre Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 March , 2006 Admin Share Posted 9 March , 2006 My husband used to work with a man called Verdun, but everyone called him Vernon. I've come across a few Douglas Haig as Christian names and also recall someone having Morval as their middle name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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