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How We Chose Our Kennel Name (UK) |
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UK Cairn Exhibitors– Kennel
Names
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AIZENAIY
I have had mine since 1996. At the time I had P.B.G.V's The
reason I picked the Affix is Aizenay is a suberb of Vendee where the hounds come from. Good job I
didn't start with Cairns might have asked for Glascow
L O L Christine Green
ANJOFRA
Like a lot of people our first few applications were rejected-quite strange
as some of them were French surnames from within the family. Our last choice
was Anjofra which is a combination of our middle names-hope you don't want us
to tell you what they are!!! Carol & Fred Confue
BALLYTICKLE
My son is a footballer and his team mates refer to
him as "BALLY" which is a shortened version of our surname.
The "TICKLE" coz Cairns love their belly-tickled .... we just changed the
belly to "BALLY". Jan
Ballinger
BERANBURH. Is the Anglo
Saxon name for Barbury Castle our local iron age hill fort. It's where I walk my dogs and horses.
It's were the Battle of Beranburh took place 556 AD.
It's a place that I and the dogs love. Amanda Davey
BIRSELAW I got my
Kennel name from combining a part of my childhood address, FOREST OF
BIRSE, with part of my present address. White LAW - Yvonne Catto
BRENNDARCY
A Combo of Brenda, Danny (Hence two n’s) & our first Cairn “Darcy” - who
gave us our lifelong love of the breed – Brenda Shannon & Danny Storr
CAIRNGOLD
My grandma (my mum's mum) liked a flutter on the horses and would back
anything which had "gold" in its name. So when the time came
for my mum and dad to choose an affix there was no other name in the running,
so to speak! Linda, Alan & Amy Firth
CALAMONDIN
- CALA was my first show dog, MON is what my close friends call
me, DIN is the noise we made together!! – Monica
Ball
CARERNWIL
was made up from CAR (the first three letters of our surname Carter) ERN (the
first three letters of my fathers Christian name
Ernest who started my love of G.S.D's) and WIL (the first three letters
of Will Rankins Christian name, who let us have our
first foundation bitch to start our line and helped us to develop
"our own style") Sylvia & Steve Carter
CANNWOOD
When Phil and I married we lived in a very small village on the edge of
Cannock Chase called Cannock Wood and after three of our first choices had
been turned down by the KC we decided on a shortened version of
the lovely village where we lived. Chris & Philip Roberts
CARRADINE
Mum and Dad had tried several names but after a few failed applications to
the KC, my Nan went through the Horse Racing lists and came up with
Carradine, the name of a racehorse at that time. Dawn Inett & Rosemary
Harrison
CASTLELINE
We have a view of Liddington
Hill from our Bungalow. There was once a Roman CASTLE there. LINE was due to the Swindon railway lines & hopefully have
our own line of cairns one day. We started naming pups after Great
Western Steam Engines. Lady Margaret & Rising Star.
Liz Thompson
CHERRYCRACK
This was the name of a field at the back of the
farmhouse where I lived and my children all grew up, I always had a Cairn or
two, they regularly escaped from the garden mostly to be found in “cherrycrack” chasing rabbits - the farmhand used to bring
them home at lunch time on the tractor and trailer. They loved that
field! Maggie Shopland
COPSELEAZE
'COPSEFIELD' was rejected so took another word from address 'LEAZE'
which for some reason is in most farm addresses in this area. Ann Weaver
CORNTON
-My Uncle, Alaisdair Meiklejohn,
was brought up on a farm near Stirling where
his mother started their kennel line. The farm was called Easter Cornton, hence the name.. Helen Miller
CORRENNIE
– I chose my prefix simply by searching maps of Scotland till I found
something I liked – The Corrennieforest and Moors
are in Aberdeenshire, not far from the city of Aberdeen. One day before I get
to old I must visit. – Susan Weinberger
CROYANDA
Our "Affix" came about from a split of mine and Yvonne's surnames, Croyman and Anderson. Bob & Yvonne Croyman
CRANAE
is the name of a Roman Goddess, 'Cranae' means
'rock' & is etymologically connected with the Gaelic 'cairn', i.e. a pile
of rocks on a mountain top ! Jenny Oldale
DOONRAE
When we were choosing our Affix Dounreay atomic
power station was being built in Caithness. We thought it was the shape of
things to come. But we preferred our spelling – Millie Jennings
DRAYEM
Ours it is a conundrum of our own names - D is for my son David, R is in
my name also A Y and M, E is my daughter. Mary &
William Buchan
EBORVALE
EBORacum is the roman name for York and I live in
the VALE of York.- Jean Shearsmith
ESSDEEEFF-
I have only had this over 1 year, although been in Cairns since 1994, My
Husband came up with the Affix as it spells my initials SDF, very good I
thought nobody will get the similarity, and I was right have had to explain
to many. Sheona Fortune
FIELDRON
We took out our affix in 1965 originally it was a prefix we
then compounded it for life.Our affix was derived
from the origins of Dronfield where we
used to live it was built on a field by the River Drone we then
transposed Dronfield to become Fieldron.
Jack & Shirley Watson
GLENROOD
When I applied for my Affix I used my Great Grandmothers name of Rood, as she
was Dutch, and because the dogs were Scottish I then put Glen on the front,
making Glenrood. Sue Dolan.
HARKINLEIGH HAR - first part of our great dane's
name Harvey (our first show dog) KIN - first part of my surname, LEIGH -
first part of Gerrys surname Nick King & Gerry
Leighton
KANAWHA
- has Maori connections and was the name of the house we lived in when
we had our first Cairn in the 1970's. The house had been built by a
retired Sea Captain whose last command was a ship call Kanawha sailing
between the UK and New Zealand.The name seemed to
flow so well with Cairns - hence Kanawha Cairns Terriers, the affix being
purchase for life as you could back then. – Frances Goldfinch
KIATAIA
Our affix was decided after a trip to New Zealand - although we did not get
the spelling correct! Wendy Barrett
KINKIM
The Affix Kinkim is a combination of Kin and
Kim. Kim was our first Cairn and all the Kinkims
are her descendants.- Brenda Birch
LANDBUCK
We lived in a village called Buckland. We tried for that name as our
affix, but it was already used. At that time I (Alan) worked near the Kennel
Club Office in London, I sat in their waiting
room and went through umpteen name ideas and then just changed the syllables
around on BUCKLAND and came up with LANDBUCK, simples:) .Alan Felters &
Richard Rumens
LARCHLEA
I chose my affix by the name of my road which is LARCH Ave., and my
sister's married name was LEA, not very original but at the time was all
I could think of. Carole Templeton
LENTRICA
I chose my affix from my fathers first name LEN and
my name Patricia - used the TRICA to make Lentrica
when he passed away 3yrs ago. Pat Clarke.
LIFFYCAIRN
I think we tried 4 or 5 before they allowed Liffycairn.
The rationale behind Liffycairn is simply that
‘LIFFY’ has been one of my nicknames over the years. Mark Lifton
MAXIMAL
I was looking for something that would be special to me ie
Maxine. After much dictionary searching up came Maximal which means the
"best possible" Not a bad aspiration
for a breeder so we were lucky to be approved by the KC. Must say we
are still aspiring though to be the best possible and may always be so!
Maxine Bennett
MALMAY
- Is an amalgamation of my name, Alma and the initial from my first cairn
'Marty', hence Malmay. Alma Smee
NEWFIELD
Combination of two houses – Longfield Grange – Newmoor Farm – Jacky Bradshaw
NONCOM
We were both serving in the Army and met in Germany
in the Sergeant's Mess Bar. As we were both Senior NON-COMmissioned
Officers ( Noncoms ) it
just seemed to follow from there, the Kennel Club wouldn't allow us to have Messbar which probably would have been more
appropriate! Mick & Babs Burgin
OCK
Named after the river Ock
which runs through the town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. I lived quite close
to this river & my first cairn Busby used to jump into it at every
opportunity! When I applied my affix I needed a KC stud book number and 12
affixes! Ock was my no12 choice!!! Jenny Fairweather
OMETTO We simply
put the word cairn into an internet search engine and the word Ometto came up as meaning something to do with the word
cairn. Not very exciting LOL Julie and Paul Coffell
ORIOR
Established by Joe and Winnie Dean in the 1970s, was
originally located in County Armagh, which formed part of the ancient
Celtic kingdom of Oriel. The eastern part of this kingdom was called Oirthera (meaning "eastern people"), and the
name is preserved in that of the Baronies of Orior.
Orior Kennels was actually located
originally in the Barony of lower Orior. Liam
Dean
ORKNEYVIKING .
I live in Orkney and like all true Orcadians I am proud of our
Viking heritage. Dave Gunn
OWENREAGH
I believe this was Louise McGrath’s Irish home town where her ffamily farmed. - Brenda
PENNIDAZZLE
At Crufts, two years ago, at the KC. stand, trying to sort out a suitable
Affix, to replace the one I had had (long story) when I happened to see on
the floor in front of me, a shiny 1p coin. I was quite taken by its dazzling
brightness and then the name, I now have, came
immediately to me, ' pennidazzle'. The KC. did
change the 'y' into a 'i' though. Jenny
Kinchin.
ROACHDEE
I use to live in Rochdale hence the Roach from the river, I have now returned
to where I lived as a child and live close to the river Dee. Put the two
together and I got Roachdee. Pauline Melia
SCOTSELAW
Although new to cairns we have been showing dogs for
over 30 years. Our affix was registered with
the kennel club in 1981.Scot because my husband is Scottish and selaw (Wales spelt backwards) as I am Welsh . Diane
Bain.
SHARPAMATT
Our Affix was chosen from our name. SHARonne & PAul MATThews given Sharpmatt. Paul
& Sharonne Matthews
SHEARWATER
In 1982 my late husband Barrie & I enjoyed Folk Music. One of our
favourite singers was Martin Carthy, he had an album
at the time called Shearwater and after going through various anagrams of our
names etc. we decided that Shearwater was much better than anything else we
could think of. – Ann Wall
STANEDYKES
In Scots stane = stone,
dyke= wall. More specifically a “stanedyke” is the
dry stone walls seen in upland farms and moorland. Jim Pollock
STARVEREN
Staveren Is a small harbour in Holland where my
sister had a sailing boat. I just added the r to make it different – Mary
Middlehurst
STRADIVARIUS
I chose the Affix “Stradivarius” as both my
wife and I are musicians. It opened the way for all our cairns to have a
musical themed name. Ray Munday
STRATHGARTEN
My Ski Instructor Brothers both lived in Aviemore - STRATHspey Drive &
Boat of GARTEN – Christine Marshall
STRATHINVER Born in Edinburgh I wanted something Scottish – I
used to visit a few places called Strath and
Inverness. I found out later that both words
had similar Celtic meanings, Strath is a river
valley and Inver is the Mouth of a river. Norma Newton
Stryveling Stryveling
was an old name for the town of Stirling where I lived when I started
showing. (The 'y' should be pronounced like an 'i'. ) Fiona Cameron
SYBSTER
Is short for 'Sybil's Terriers' but is also the name
of a place in Caithness. We were living in Caithness when we chose our affix
(1974) and the place name is actually 'SIBSTER' but we thought it was near
enough. Sybil & John Berrecloth
THACKESTON
Bought my first show puppy from Dorothy Hawkins and as she had stopped
breeding I took on her affix because I had the only bitch of her line. Jo
Harland
TYCADNO. This is as most people
would have guessed a welsh word, in fact 2 words, Ty (pronounce tea) means
house, Cadno means fox. The literal interpretation
would be house fox, but with the welsh language you would turn it around to
mean fox house. Geoff Thomas (Wales)
TWEEDISLE
– The Kennel Club asked us to forward something like 10 or 12 names for their
consideration; we supplied three. They also stated no litters would be
registered until the affix had been approved.
Two
litters which should been ‘put on hold’ by their Registration Department were
approved by them and registered in our first choice of affix, PEERAGE, a play
on our name.
Later,
we received a letter telling that our second choice, TWEEDISLE, had been
approved by the K.C. Committee. They would not reverse their decision or
allow the first two litters to be re-named under the Tweedisle affix.
In
the 1970’s, Harris Tweed was still a popular choice of cloth for sport coats
and came from the Isle of Harris; one of the Western Isles of Scotland from
whence the Cairn Terrier originated.
I
do believe the KC’s Committee were a little wiser than we when arriving at
their decision and certainly, TWEED from the Isle,
was the correct choice of name for our kennel. Graham, Hilary & Louise Peers
VANAJAM
I chose the Affix Vanajam as this is an
amalgamation of my daughter’s and son’s names: VANessa And JAMes
– Gill Ward
WENFIRIC
Not very exciting the way we chose our affix, it is purely derived from the
names of our children WENdy, FIona
& RIChard - simples! Linda & Martin Bridge
WINETTA Came from a
combination of both my and Stu's mums names. Being a close family we thought
it would be nice to acknowledge the heart of any family
.... the mam. My mams name is WINifred Stu's mam is called HenriETTA.
Joan Percy
WIZOZ My first two choices were "Dashow"
and "Wodash". anagrams
of my Rough Collie's name Shadow. He was my first dog I got after
leaving home and also my Best Pal. WIZOZ came after watching The Wizard
of Oz for the umpteenth time! – Wendy Laker
WOODTHORPE
Miss Marjorie Morgan registered her “Woodthorpe” Prefix in 1927. It was the name of the
village where she and her sister lived outside Nottingham (now a district of
the City of Nottingham). – Sue Kinton
If
you wish to add your Cairn Kennel name to this list please email Brenda
bdcairns@brenndarcy.co.uk
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If you wish to add your Cairn Kennel name to this list
please email Brenda