Help! My daughter can't marry Mr Willey

I have met a Mr. De'ath- I would not fancy that much.

Lily Willey?
I know two people who changed their surnames - one was called Bogg, and the other Nutter (unfortunate for a teacher to be called Mr Nutter). It's also difficult if your name ends or begins with Cock or Cox.
I seems to remember that in the TV sitcom Just Good Friends a girl called
Penny had been married to a Mr Pratt so was Penny Pratt. I can't remember the name of the other lead (Vince) who she finally married but it was equally awful - rhymed or something.
I have also known a Shirley Hurley and a Sheila Wheeler (both married names.). Hope they aren't on this site!

My maiden name was that of a sticker that can be attached to an envelope, my father wanted to call me Penelope. Mother had a major strop and told him she wouldn't allow it as the poor child would have her name shortened to Penny. Not rude but children get terribly teased.

Mock him not. He is probably very proud of being one of a long line of Willeys, and should stand up for himself.
Boom Boom

I have mentioned before that I met a chap who's parents hand landed him with the name Ivor, OK unless the family name is Stiff, which it was. For obvious reasons who chose to be known by his middle name, John.

At the same time (and place) I had other clients called Veryard, I would loved to have introduced them "Ah, Mr & Mrs Veryard, come and meet the Stiffs".

I think you all have "very mucky " minds ?

When it left our keyboards it was all perfectly clean, it was your ears that converted it onto muck.

A friend of mine married a Mr Wanklin. She kept her own surname and gave her name to their daughter.

Or ears perhaps

Well, there was a boy in my Junior class called Roger Chitty and my very first love was called......Richard Large, known as Dick!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was a very successful stock car driver in the 60's called Willie Wanklyn. We used to watch him at Harringay.

Working in a chemist shop many, many years ago, one customer was called Euphemia Crick, then there was also a Mrs. Tinkler and a Mr Gasser. Handing out prescriptions with a straight face was sometimes difficult!

A friend of mine married a Mr Wanklin That was the name of one of my college lecturers (a lovely man)
The surname of someone who worked for the same firm as DH was 'Bunkle'
His parents had named him Carl for some unknown reason. Perhaps they didn't like him much.

my friends mum is Chris Cross

I've mentioned before about writing to a Mr Peed whose first name was Isaac and he lived in Pond Lane.

Also mentioned a colleague whose daughter married a Mr Plonka and they called their baby Polly.

Ed Balls once said that for obvious reasons ,his children took their mother's surname.

I knew a lady whose name was Maud Hogsflesh.

John Smelley did not like his name so he had it changed by deed poll.He is now called Peter Smelley

And another quite common name here, is Bogie. Not so very nice for one of DH's classmates, Henrietta.

A friend of mine knew a girl with the surname Kermode and the Christian name Honor!
I had two Victorian ancestors with the surname Cock and the Christian name William. I don't know if they were known as Willie.
(This thread has really made me laugh, well done Grans.)

We used to have a chap called John Thomas working for us. We generally referred to him as JT.

My uncle was John Thomas, as was his father.

It makes you wonder how on earth all these names came about, surely it cannot be as obvious as most would seem to think?!

Stop! The tears are running down me legs!

LOL. That has really cheered me up this morning. If I were marrying a Willey, I'd keep my own surname or ask him to change his slightly - even Wiley would be ok.