NAMING CHILDREN
The report that a Yorkshire collier tried to have a child christened "Onetoomany 'is but one instance of how some folk try to make the Fifth Command difficult to observe. Tho registers ot Somerset House reveal (asserts a correspondent .of the "Manchester Oruardian ) some cruel jokes in the matter of names, especially where the surname lends itself to punning, as "Arch Bishop," "Hose Budd," "Prim Rose " "Ernest Will Berst," "Sudden Death " Pine Coffin," Alfred Gott BareWs " and "Partrige Roast." A clergyman who died recently burdened each o"f his children with, some fifteen names, chiefly archaic, and there is a woman in Derby with a name for every letter in the alphabet, commencing with Anna and ending with Zara.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 14
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120NAMING CHILDREN Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 14
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