Namesake Day: Celebrate Your Name Week
20100307, 080012 - 3 commentsToday marks the start of Celebrate Your Name Week, starting with Namesake Day.
I have yet to find, after many years of searching another Mark Beech within my family tree, or even another Mark amongst my ancestors, but I’m aware of a number of other people, and even a village called Mark Beech, with whom I compete on the Google SERPS.
The village of Mark Beech is located in Kent, but I first located it on the cover of a road atlas in WH Smith, at the time I felt that this was a most excellent form of subliminal advertising if only to a very limited market.
One Mark Beech, a Dr Mark Jonathan Beech, is an archaeologist in Abu Dhabi, and whist I know little of his work his main claim to fame is that as a student he attended a Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages gig at Dingwalls at Camden Lock.
Another Famous Mark Beech is the author of the AZ names in rock, a smart little book detailing how many of our favourite bands acquired their names’.
For reporting on NASCAR Sports Illustrated have a Mark Beech, although I have never read any of his writing.
Other Mark Beechs include a lawyer, an illustrator, a retired blogger, and I’m sure there are many more that I have yet to find.
[...] According to my best friend, Mark Beech, whose politics I in no way endorse, today is Namesake Day as part of Celebrate Your Name Week, so I thought I’d join in. [...]
Thanks much for celebrating CYNW with us this week!
According to the website HowManyofMe.com there are 21 people in the U.S. named Mark Beech. That same site says there are over a thousand people with my name!
One thought provoking aspect, among many, of same-named people is that within each his/her own circle of friends/relatives…he/she IS THE Tom Smith, THE Betty Johnson, or THE Bob Anderson. We define the name, not the other way around.
Anyway, thanks again for celebrating with us!
All best wishes, Jerry
Hi Jerry,
Thank you for your comment, it is proving to be interesting and informative taking part in CYNW, altogether many of the activities to not lend them-self as well as this to a weblog post.
I was keen to post this day’s activities both to promote the other Mark Beech, some of which I have befriended on Facebook or follow on Twitter and also to make a point to my good friend Jonathan Bishop.
Jonathan unlike me does not like the fact that there are other people with the same name, some of which I have befriended on Facebook or follow on Twitter and so a couple of years ago he went to the trouble and expense of registering his name as a Trade Mark to stop other people from using it.