A man named Chicken
My parents have just come back from the States, complete with a story about one of their friends almost marrying an englishman with the surname Chicken. Needless to say, it became the subject of much hilarity. Incredulity shortly followed and they, along with the rest of their group, started to proclaim that that surname couldn’t possibly exist.
A quick search of ancestry.co.uk has settled the argument.
Who are your chicken ancestors?
We’ve found chicken in the following databases:
- 2515 matches in UK Census Records
- 3937 matches in UK Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Needless to say, my rather schoolboy sense of humour led me to search for other strange and unwanted surnames. Did you know that there are 158 Bum’s, 103 Tit’s, 71 Bollock’s, 4 Arse’s, and no less than 1608 Poo’s recorded on the UK Birth, Marriage and Death records? Poor sods (yeah, there are 21 of those too).
