The names people have are an endless source of fascination, and for the professionals as much as us mere mortals. During their work hunting the heirs to unclaimed estates, genealogy firm Fraser and Fraser have uncovered some truly bizarre names perpetrated by the Victorians. Amongst them are:
Leicester Railway Cope, who was so named because he was born on a carriage at Leicester Train Station in 1863.
Time Of Day, son of Thomas and Alice Day. Apparently the title was a family tradition.
Windsor Castle. Clearly a family with regal pretensions: her father’s surname was Castle and her mother’s maiden name was King.
That’s It Who’d Have Thought It Restell, who later changed his name to George Restell.
Zebra Lynes, the daughter of James Lynes, a basket maker from Southampton.
You can find a few more, as well as images of the offending Birth Certificates at www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/insane-british-names-from-the-19th-century.
Unfortunately my ancestry doesn’t run to anything more exotic than Farclay Hicks, who was my 4x-great-grandfather.