Best. Lastname. Ever.

[elanya]

Mr. Greatbatch

That is all :V

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By an amazing coincidence

[chairman-matt.livejournal.com]

My grandmother was a Greatbatch, its a fairly common, if regional, name where i'm from, the following link shows the spread over time:

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx

See how the extended family moves from stoke-on-trent to ... regions mostly adjoining stoke-on-trent :D

Re: By an amazing coincidence

[elanya.livejournal.com]

that's awesome ^-^

There was a Greatbatch in Bermuda in 1708 :V

Re: By an amazing coincidence

[chairman-matt.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! Adventurous cousin Bob! We wondered where he got to :P

Weston is a little more boring later on in that its a generic english location name. You can see this in the way its stops at the celtic fringe in the 1881 map. Oddly we don't seem to have mixed with the east of england/the north much. Must have been mercians way back or somesuch :P

Re: By an amazing coincidence

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Hatch hasn't got anything really interesting to it either :/

Re: By an amazing coincidence

[chairman-matt.livejournal.com]

but very popular in Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle Of Wight

[rumor-esq.livejournal.com]

I think Whiskeyjack and Van der Wolf are contenders.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

My favourite surname I've encountered is Strikeswithagun.