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“Mary T. Cocaine”

I think I’d go to court and try to get my last name changed... just saying.

6 posted on 10/09/2021 8:28:59 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)

I think I’d go to court and try to get my last name changed... just saying.

The family is Greek Orthodox, and an obit notice below gives a suggestion that "Cocaine" was an unfortunate anglicization of "Kokkinis". Perhaps the original imigration agent in the 19th century was trying to be funny. It looks like one of the sons decided to go back to the original.

This is from the local paper when her husband died a few years earlier:
In addition to his wife Mary, he leaves behind his children, Marina C. Smith of Lexington and Harry D. Kokkinis of Worcester. He was predeceased by his son Michael J. Cocaine.
https://www.telegram.com/article/20150210/OBIT/502100305

“I think I’d go to court and try to get my last name changed... just saying”

Just for mispronunciation’s sake, if my name was Colin, I would change it.

Cocaine? There’s a few good nick names there.

47 posted on 10/09/2021 12:33:53 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)