In mid-2014, K. Steenson of the University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections blog offered “fifteen genuine examples of people’s names taken from the manuscripts that we have come across.”
The original list included a lot of fun details, but here’s the gist of it — just the names themselves:
- Barefoot Booth
- Daft Smith
- Dymock Wallpoole
- Hearsay Wood
- Kitty Bounds
- Madewell Crisp
- Marmaduke Witham
- Mercy Puffin
- Original Steele
- Restored Bendall
- Saintly Whitehead
- Stockdale Avison
- Thoroton Pocklington
- Treverse Spilie
- Webster Whistler
In the comments, an archivist from Somerset threw in a few more: Strangeways and Truefoot (brothers), Purified, and Keren-happuch.
Source: What’s in a name?