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Mike Chisholm's avatar

I'm seeing a possible cross-thread of people whose names are made up from historical currencies: Frank Pound, Penny Stater, Lira Guilder, Cash Scudo, etc.

I assume you know about Dave Gorman's "Are you Dave Gorman?" Stage and TV show?

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Helen Barrell's avatar

Mark Noble was an oyster merchant in Brightlingsea, Essex, in the early 1800s. His will is at Essex Archives along with another Mark Noble's marriage licence from 1760. https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/

(I had to comment - I recognised the name as he's in my family tree! It *seems* like it should be an unusual name, but actually it's that unique, as your post shows).

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Adam Smyth's avatar

This is wonderful! Thank you.

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H James Lucas's avatar

Anyone who takes more than a couple spins with Wikipedia’s “Random Article” feature is likely to encounter the surfeit of stub articles on individuals whose brief involvement in sports allows them pass the project’s weirdly low threshold for notability as an athlete, so it is equal parts comforting and depressing to be reminded that mediocrity in sports has been a reliable means of cementing one’s place in the record for centuries.

(It is entirely heartening, though, to note that the subject of a random Wikipedia article is vanishingly unlikely to a failed fratricidist!)

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