Financial surnames

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember12892]

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Just for fun

[Brian WoodParticipant @brianwood45127]

Many years ago our Bank manager [remember them?!!] was called Lenderyou

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[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by br on 04/03/2022 20:14:22:

Posted by Brian Wood on 04/03/2022 20:06:36:

Many years ago our Bank manager [remember them?!!] was called Lenderyou

Was his christian name BOB

Bank managers – they seem to be collectors items these days

My father visited his quite often I recall in the old days – he approved of his sherry.

Bob is very good – I've been struggling to make a joke out of Mark.

How the other half live! I've never been given sherry by a Bank Manager. Had a letter from one once, 'please do not anticipate your credit…'

Dave

[CalumParticipant @calumgalleitch87969]

There is a lady on Twitter, a freelance journalist, who rejoices in the name of Ms Hedges-Stocks – alas, she has yet to join the financial pages.

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[brickyParticipant @bricky]

A ground worker who worked for our firm was call bob but was reffered to as shilling.

Frank

[Graham StoppaniParticipant @grahamstoppani46499]

As a teenager opening my first bank account in the 70's I was interviewed by the local branch manager of Barclays to see if I was worthy of their services… When the manager asked me why I'd chosen to bank with them, I confidently replied

"Because may father barks at Banklays!" doh!

Edited By Graham Stoppani on 05/03/2022 11:34:51

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

Some more financial surnames:

Banks, Cash, Money, Bond, Spender, Coin, Note,

Purse, Spender, Loan, Borrow, Rich, Poor, Broke.

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[Roger VaneParticipant @rogervane67137]

Slightly different topic, but once went to a dentist whose surname was Mercy

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Posted by Roger Vane on 05/03/2022 14:24:22:

Slightly different topic, but once went to a dentist whose surname was Mercy

Three of my fellow apprentices were named Pope, Mercy and Heaven.

Back to the financial topic, my son's former music teacher is called Tanner.

George

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

I remember seeing on "That,s life" there was an Estate Agent named Robin Bastard.

I,m not joking, even Ester laughed at it.

I often wondered how he stayed in business with a name like that, but perhaps people regarded him as an "Honest" man ? As far as I remember, he was very sucessful, so, what,s in a name ?

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[brickyParticipant @bricky]

My last dentists name was Payne.

Frank

[Michael BriggsParticipant @michaelbriggs82422]

Some years ago I got a tax demand from HMRC, signed by Mr Leech.

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Don't know if you had them in the UK but in Australia we also had the Threepence, Florin and Crown. The Threepence (or Thrippenny) was of course 3 pence, the Florin was 2 shillings (24 pence) and the Crown was 5 shillings. I always though the Florin sounded French.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I am a little surprised that Miss Moneypenney hasn’t got a look-in … but I suppose that goes with the characterisation.

MichaelG.

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

I've still got a Groat ( 4d )

Roy

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

We must not forget James Bond's Miss Moneypenny I have no more to offer money related but a pub local to me where I'd often go to eat the Landlord name was Christmas his christen name was Chris and his wife's was Mary alas to nice people long since gone

H

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Dental Surgeon here named Cutright. Did it wrong once, removed 2 perfectly good front teeth on the wrong Patient.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, I don't know if it counts, but my mum called me a "daft ha'p'orth" a few times when I was a kid, and she was probably right.

Regards Nick.

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[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I never give any thought to the meaning/derivation of my own surname when giving it nor to other peoples' when I meet them. With so many non-anglo-saxons in my acquaintance now I wonder how many have equivalent connotations of occupation/lineage etc as the ones I can understand.
Many of the oddities in UK names and spellings were introduced in the 18th century when barely literate clergy started to make written records of births and marriages and had to interpret local accents to put on paper for the very first time a family's name. It then became their legal identity to be copied when a later generation finally learned to write more than just an X. Records sometimes show changes is a name as a succeeding cleric struggled to read/write and created a new version.

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