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Al Baker(pumpman)

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When I was growing up I was close friends with Mikey and his brother Raymond Purple, I later drove truck for John White. I
repaired a combine for a guy whos last name was Green. Had a BIL whos name was Jack Brown. Attended an Auction in IN. At a farm
owned by Joe Blue. Neighbors first name was Red. Can anybody add to This?? Al
 
There was the Pink family in our area, I met one of them in 1973.
Still a cemetery that is carries their family name
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I had a neighbor whose name was Brown. A good friend's name is White. Another neighbor was Schwartz - the German word for black.
 
When I worked offshore in the Gulf as a production platform operator we had a drilling crew come out to our platform for some new well drilling. Toolpusher- Green, Driller- Brown, Welder- Black. They were a contract drilling crew and had been together for over 20 years.
 
One of the band members of the group Pepe Deluxe is James Spectrum. I guess he would qualify .....

"Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland."

Dean might have some of their albums ..... LOL !!!
 
My name is not a color, but I've been red faced from embarrassment, green with envy, and black and blue and even blood red on a number of occasions. Does that count?
 
One fighter squadron I was i, there was a george White, and a George Black. Of course their call signs were George White.."Black George" George Black ,, "White George"/ So it was "White George Black", and "Black George White".
 
A lot of those color surnames were given by the immigration officers on Ellis Island to new arrivals.

When the officer could not understand the newby, they ended up with a surname that went with the color of their shirt, pants, skirt etc.
 
Years ago in Europe, before the US came about, no one had last names.

Not sure how long ago, twelfth or thirteenth century, maybe, someone decreed everyone have a last name, and they could pick the name. Some took their occupation, Miller, Carpenter, Fisher, etc. Some took colors, Green, Brown, White, etc. Everything kind of expanded from there.

Maybe someone on this forum knows more about this than I do.

BTW, my last name is German and translates into "The Goose Man", or someone who raises geese. Someone figured that out when I was in the Marine Corps, and the nickname has stuck over the years.
 
My dad told of a family in southern Indiana by the name of Rose, so they named their daughter Wild. She married a fellow Buhl pronounced Bull.
 
The village in Norway my Grandfather came from still had the rule that everyone’s surname was the village name. And he came to North American around 1905. I understand that sometime around 1920, everyone was free to select their own surname or keep the village name if they liked. His younger brother that stayed in Norway chose the name of a river there. The village my Grandfather came from was called Brekke, and no longer exist as it merged with another village on the opposite side of the fiord called Flam. History is interesting stuff. My surname is Prentice and I have been apprentice my entire life, lol. Not too hard to see the origin of this name
 
Not a color but true story, I went to high school with a young lady named JOY KNIGHT . Have no idea what her mother must have been thinking when she named the baby. Boys always had fun of her name.
 
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