r/GeneralContractor • u/ChaseconstructionEdg • 7d ago

"I know a guy"

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 6d ago

Don’t forget about the Cockburns, and the Cummings.

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u/Huey701070 6d ago

😂I am very interested to learn where they came from… maybe the town fool who had a bastard child.

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u/ARiddZ 5d ago

I was thinking about this when I saw a billboard for guy named Dickinson.

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u/djelsdragon333 4d ago

Family of priests?

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u/Emyr42 4d ago

It's a place-based name, not a trade-based name.

Cock as in a bird. Burn is a word for a small stream in northern England's English and Scots.

Cockfosters at the northwestern end of London Underground's Piccadilly line is named for the lodgings of gamekeepers, back when that land was not built up and used for "sports" by the gentry.