Help! My daughter can't marry Mr Willey

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

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

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!

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 !!!

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.

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!

I used to work with a Pratt.

well, thanks for all of this, i can't stop laughing........
a friend of mine called her daughter Dawn, and her surname was Hobbs.
and i read one the internet about a girl in the USA who was asked by a nurse what she was going to call her baby, and the answer sounded like ash holy, when she was asked how it was spelt, the answer was ASSHOLE .

Sorry,that should be on, not one

I did teacher training with a nice woman whose surname was Wibberly. She had an enormous bust and the kids called her Mrs Wibberly Wobbly! I know someone who married a Strain: I personally couldn't live with that name, too constipated.

A relative of mine married a Captain Pratt, - who was later promoted to Major.

My SiL has a colleague called Wayne Ankers, I knew someone called Timothy Burr and my sister had a friend at school whose parents were Harold Wilson and Blanche Socket. Great thread, it's had me laughing out loud

I knew a very dear guy called Freddie Willey who was very tall and the first aid guy where he worked. I was never aware of any amusement at his name but have chuckled several times in recent years. Times change!

Well, just say 'Wiley'. I remember hearing many years ago of someone called Mr. Death and, with the help of an apostrophe, he became Mr. De 'Ath. Very attractive for a surname change, don't you think?

Didn't we all, phizz , in fact I've worked with a fair few, if you get my meaning!

And someone called Onions became Mr. O'nions. Pronounced Oh nyons.Very suave!

Must tell, my maiden name was DICKMAN, and believe it or not there were never any jokes made (not to my face anyway) I didnt really think about what it meant until someone pointed out that British names were given according to their profession! I did take my Husbands name, but the name Dickman still lives on in the family.

Jamie, was your friend a headmistress in Derby in the 50s/60s? Our head there was Mrs (Wobbly) Wibberly.

I was at school with a P Green (can't remember her Christian name but was always called P). Her brother was called Bay. Also grew up with a Matt White and a Sean Lamb. My family's original name was Dutch - Kok anglicised to Cock, then Cocks and finally, by the time I was born it was Cox - not ideal but better.

I had a teacher called Mrs.Onions, which she pronounced O'nions.. But we all ignored that and used to call her Onions anyway.

My sons P.E. teacher at school was Mr.P. Nutt, and his wife was called Hazel.
My mother had an old friend called Minnie Orange.

Be thankful - it could be Trump !!

My brother had a friend whose surname was De'Ath. I was friendly with a girl whose surname was Badcock (pronounced Bad-co, apparently), but when I was in my teens I worked in a pub with a girl who worked at the council by day.
She swore up and down that it was true that Mr & Mrs Gina really did call their daughter Nova.

I had a customer called Glasscock. He regularly called into the travel office where I worked and I never needed to address him by name, just write out his travel tickets. Then one day, while he was in the office, I needed to ring an airline to check on his flight times. As I gave his name over the phone, pronounced phonetically, he hissed at me "it's pronounced Glassock" I was so red-faced as I apologised to him!
I remember reading, as a child, of a couple about to get married who were called Ruby Rose and Rose Ruby. I guess they had three choices: keep his surname, in which case she'd be Rose Rose; keep her surname and he'd be Ruby Ruby, or have a double-barrelled surname - Ruby Ruby-Rose / Ruby Rose-Ruby

My brother was at school with Neil Down, I taught Russell Hobbs , a friend's aunt was Doris Morris and my friend , Pritti fell in love and married David Rose.

At college another student was called Henrietta Legge and she fell in love and married a chap with the surname Bullock. As they were both going to be teachers they chose a new, neutral surname: Anderson