RichardB Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Just as I find 'em, names to make you stop and read again, just so you're sure ... Hugh De Vaux Balbirnie, MD, Surgeon, 233 Richards Road ----------------------------- Lazarus Baldera, Tobacconist, 368 Langsett Road ----------------------------- George Frederick Eggbury Beatson, Table and Butcher knife manufacturer, 51 Backfields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Hilderbert Delacey Pigott, 2 Fowler Street, a Beer retailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hugh De Vaux Balbirnie, MD, Surgeon, 233 Richards Road This man (a Glaswegian) married the daughter of Squire Heaton (Squire was his Christian name, and his mother's maiden name) The Balbirnies had a son called Alexander Hugh Elphinstone Balbirnie. (wife and son buried in Walkley Cemetery, but not, unaccountably, the father, though his death was registered in Sheffield). Three of my favourite names from this cemetery: William Toes Tingle Emma Emily Amelia Lyte Toogood Beeston Himsworth (whose daughter married the founder of Stokes Paints). Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Clergymen are good for odd names Claud Montague Benson Skene (a curate of Walkley c 1908) Edmund Boteler Chalmer (2 of them, father and son, 19th C. vicars of Sharrow, Ranmoor, Fulwood) William Vyvyan Francis Kynaston Watts-Jones (curate of Fulwood in the 1940's) Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 and I can't resist, from the 1891 census, confirmed by the GRO birth index: Sidney Harbour Smith (who lived at 100 Sydney Road) Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 All most excellent and amusing. Thanks Hugh lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siren Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Lieut Rupert Rochefort Moliere Tabuteau, killed in action 28.3.1918 his parents lived on the Isle of Wight but he is remembered in the Sheffield City Roll of Honour. I'd love to know why, anybody out there know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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