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♫ Penny €

♫ Penny € Report 11 Jul 2007 18:13

Has anyone got this name or Bastard in their tree?

♫ Penny €

♫ Penny € Report 11 Jul 2007 18:16

On the radio this afternoon a lady was saying it was a common surname given to illegitimate children. Just wondered if anyone had come across any?

♫ Penny €

♫ Penny € Report 11 Jul 2007 18:16

So did her father have the same surname Rosemary?

Foggy

Foggy Report 11 Jul 2007 18:29

Penny, my wife is always calling me that, I think she thinks it's my name

Websterbfc

Websterbfc Report 11 Jul 2007 18:31

If you put Bastard into ancestry there seem to be alot with the name in scotland........maybe it meant something different up there ? lmao 1891 census shows there were alot in Devon too

RStar

RStar Report 11 Jul 2007 19:08

Funny you should say that, I came across some on the 1851 census while I was looking for another family, said to husband I wonder if anyones kept that as their name these days.

Clive

Clive Report 11 Jul 2007 19:29

That's what I have called quite a lot of my rellies. Does that count? C

♫ Penny €

♫ Penny € Report 11 Jul 2007 19:35

There are meant to be some in every phone book - just checked mine & there's none!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 11 Jul 2007 21:53

The Bastard brothers re-built Blandford Forum after it was destroyed by fire in 1731. No Bastards in my tree though - just a lot of illegitimacy!!! maggie

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 11 Jul 2007 22:03

I used to go to primary school with an Anne Bastard Ann Glos

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Sandra

Sandra Report 11 Jul 2007 22:03

If you go on Ancestry's BMD and simply enter 'Bastard' in the deaths,there are some quite recent ones... It's quite surprising isn't it? If you asked someone their name and they said that to you,you'd be quite shocked and wonder if they were joking! Sandra. xxx

Haribo

Haribo Report 11 Jul 2007 23:42

We've lived in this house for 20 years. Every Christmas, we get a card addressed to a Mrs U. Bastdad (no r) !! Apparently, she moved from here around 10 years before we moved here.