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Remarkable Names

Reverend Canaan Banana of the African National Congress.
Mr. Bell married Miss. Bottoms, Chester-le-Street, Durham 1912.
Silence Bellows, Editor, The Christian Science Monitor.
Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissionaire de Police, Paris.
Mr. Venus Bonaparte, as reported in The Times.
Iona Victory Bond, resident of Victoria, British Colombia.
Original Bug, resident of Liverpool, from Liverpool Echo.
Henry Will Burst, as reported in The Times Literary Supplement.
Reverend Christian Church, active in Florence, Italy.
Mr. Cock married Miss Prick as reported in The Times.
Pafia Pifia Pefia Pofia Pufia da Costa, from Brazil, as reported in the Financial Times. Note that the names are not in alphabetical order.
Welcome Baby Darling, as announced in the local paper, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Any Day, 1871 census for Crawshawbooth, Lancashire.
Christmas Day, baptised Lowestoft, Suffolk, 27th December 1762 (clearly born two days earlier).
Godfrey Armistice Day, born 11th November 1923.
Lucky Day, born 1859, Blything, Suffolk.
May Day, died 1842, Axbridge, Somerset.
Time Of Day, born 1899, Hoo, Kent.
Valentine Day, born 1842, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Winter Day, born 1845, Romsey, Hampshire.
Doctor Dotti, psychiatrist and second husband of the actress Audrey Hepburn.
I. P. Frilli, garage proprietor, Florence, Italy.
George Fuchs married Alice Allott, Thurmaston, Leicestershire, 1764.
Lettice Goedebed, resident of Johannesburg, South Aftrica.
Primrose Goo, resident of Hawaii.
Mary Hinge, born Clutton, Somerset, 1846.
Miss. Horsey de Horsey, intimate friend of Lord Cardigan.
Fanny Hunnybun, died 1975 aged ninety-seven, Devon.
Buster Hymen, as reported in the San Francisco Examiner.
Female Jones, born at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. A surprisingly common name, bestowed by hospitals in the absence of a parental decision. It is often pronounced fee-mar-lay or fee-malay.
Dick Licker, born Oldham, Lancashire, 1845.
Messy Licker, born Chorley, Lancashire, c. 1803.

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