Help! My daughter can't marry Mr Willey

I used to work with a Pratt.

Some friends of ours, many years ago actually changed their surname to Willis by deed poll cos their daughter-in-law to be didn't want to be called Mrs Willey!

One of my best friend's single name was Grocock and we never thought it so odd 55 years ago, maybe we were more innocent in those days. When she did her family tree she found very few families with the same surname. Perhaps they had all changed it.

My step daughter had a horrid married name. It always reminded me of poor
Humphry Bogart dragging The African Queen through the swamps ???
The first thing she did during her recent divorce was change it back to her family name by Deed Poll. Both her Dad & I were delighted ! During my working life I came across a Mrs Growcock....now that was either love or desperatiion !!!

I married into an unusual surname that lends itself to various misspellings and mispronunciations, most of them obscene. And everyone who does it thinks they're being terribly original and ever so funny. They're not, on either count! I thought long and hard before deciding to change my perfectly normal name to this one. Oddly enough, DD1 has chosen to keep it, and DDIL has chosen to take it on. DD2 has changed to her husband's surname, but it's been a gradual process over the last six years. It's surprising what you can get used to!

I haven't looked at the post's for a few days so how nice to come back to this one. Cuppa tea and a giggle was most welcome xx

Many years ago, our vet was called Peter Knutt, and his wife was called Hazel.

I had a friend called Marjorie Dawe. I lived opposite a Mary Lamb and her brother was called Jack Horner.

My cousin Lee King. Went to school with a Debbie Duck. And knew an Ivor Windebrow .

I used to know an ex-teacher (a spinster) who was always delighted when we saw her old pupils in the street and remembered all of their names. One day as we passed a man, who greeted her warmly, she later told me that he was called Dick - unfortunately his surname was Head. I later discovered that he insisted on being called Richard but I never had the heart to update her on the modern interpretation - she was a true lady and would have been devastated.

MoBrown she could be double barrelled...Brown-Willey ?

I have a great friend of many years who retained the name Willey when she married in the 1960s. Her husband has a lovely surname but she wanted to keep her own.
On the other hand, my Mother in Law had her husband-to-be change his name by deed poll prior to getting married as she didn't want to be a Ramsbottom. Ramsbottom or course is a perfectly respectable place name - but I think it's not such a great name to go through school with!

My father had a friend who was married to a Polish man called Carlos Kent. My father remarked that Kent was an unusual name for a Pole and was told that she had insisted she change one letter in it before she would marry him.

mamaa your colleague's acquaintance reminds me of Italian men strolling along the sea edge for the passeggiata. They do this all the time. Or maybe they just itch excessively?

Apols for the caps in your name. I hadn't checked

LoopyLou ! Am I seeing an 'm' and a 'p' being substituted for the 'w' and 'b'?
I can imagine your embarrassment !!

One of my work colleagues knows a man who goes by the name of Dick Checker ( I'm smiling now as I type; gets me every time!)....

Years ago we knew a Mr. Swarbrick, not a problem until I badly mispronounced it when introducing him to the Lord Mayor at an exceedingly posh event......
Talk about a monumental cockup ....[ blush]

DH couldn't look him in the face for months!

Both my daughters in law and also my daughter have all retained there maiden name, at least for work. It seems to be becoming common. My daughter gets very cross when people (usually elderly relatives) address envelopes to her in her husbands name as in 'Mrs John Smith' (not his real name)

At school our music teacher was Miss Trumper.

My mother is named Olive, she married my father whose surname was Greene...! I do wonder, genuinely wonder rather than disapprove, why young women still change their names on marriage. Does anyone know he answer to this question? When I asked my husbands nieces they unfriended me on Facebook, and I really was only asking a question out of interest.

I didn't change my name and my husband regularly gets addressed as Mr Greene lol!

My friend taught in a school where the Head gloried in the name of Miss Rebecca Soles!

Used to work with a Wancke. He pronounced his name Vankee but his pupils didn't.

My daughter married someone with a very unusual name. My son in law doesn't like it, his mother thinks it's a bit embarrassing but we have got used to it now and rather like it . Nobody round here can spell it correctly though; It is apparently an old Hertfordshire name. More, I am not prepared to divulge.
When I was a librarian there were three customers named Grief, Anguish and Argument.

I knew a medic with the same name but pronounced as Wylee