I have a friend and he uses his surname as the last name, for some fucking reason.
I have two colleagues who also do that.
It's probably a cultural thing?
Edit: For clarity, all three are Indians, from India.
Naming customs will vary based on what culture the person is from and for people of Indian background in the west, how their names have been adapted to fit a western First-Last name format. Surname and last name are synonymous to me but if you meant first name and last name, it's often because the person comes from a culture that has patronymic naming customs, the equivalent of John Johnson or David Davidson or something.
In this case there is enough information to go off of to decipher most of what is going on.
Let's review the alleged document provided by JessePS:
Apparently, someone named Neelam Pall Mann is the owner. The freehold status of the property and the fact that it was last sold in February 2003 for £45,000 was already publicly available through government record searches.
My speculation:
Assuming this is real (and the "Podawful" does give me a little pause), is Mann the surname of a previous husband or is it one of Cog's in-laws? From what we know right now, it could be either.
This website has digitized birth and marriage civil registration index records for the UK up until 1997:
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
Based on the timing, this will cover the birth of Cog's wife, Cog's sister-in-law, and Cog's wife's parent's marriage assuming these all happened in the UK. Any first marriage of Cog's wife would not be covered.
There is 1 record for the birth of someone named Neelam Pall, from 1984 (~40 years old). The mother's maiden name is listed as Devi. The local authority district is listed as Sandwell which includes Oldbury, the location of Cog's palatial estate.
Is this Cog's Neelam? Next step is to look for a birth record of her sister. There is 1 record for the birth record of someone named Sonam Pall, from 1991 (~33 years old), from Birmingham (adjacent to Sandwell).
However, the mother's maiden name is listed as Parvitro Pall, instead of Devi.
But I suspected Parvitro Pall was actually the mother's name, not the mother's maiden name, I looked to see if there was a marriage record to confirm this.
The civil registration index of marriages is a bit weird. It lists the first and last name of the person getting married, and then the last name of the person they are getting married to. This means one needs to cross-reference it with the reciprocal record associated with the other party to fully determine who is getting married. There is a marriage of Parvitro Devi to Surinder Pal in Sandwell in 1983. If this is the right marriage, it would mean they would have had to have changed the spelling of Pal to Pall by 1984 when Neelam Pall was born.

According to
192.com, which appears to be some sort of people search website using the UK Electoral Register as a source, Parvitro Pall was linked to Neelam Pall in Oldbury sometime between 2002 and 2004.
According to the website, somebody named Neelam Mann in Oldbury was linked to Surinder Pall, Daniel J Caffrey and Inderjit Mann between 2006-11 and/or 2013-24.
Since Daniel John Caffrey is Dan the scaffolder who Cog likes to threaten people with, I conclude that Neelam Mann is in fact Neelam Pall/Neelam Harrison and the below claim is false:
Cog does NOT live with Dan.
You need to make a purchase on this website to see the full record, and I think although they are public record, they are only freely available to the public in person in that district. Obviously, I am not spending more to confirm from the UK Electoral Register that Cog's wife has owned "his" palatial estate since 2003 than Cog has on said palatial estate which is definitely owned by him.
PS: Cog's likely mother-in-law Parvitro Pall may well have been a UKIP supporter in 2017, two years before Carl Benjamin ran for the party. Somebody by that name signed nomination papers for the UKIP candidate for a council election in Braunstone, which is near Leicester just under an hour's drive from Cog's palatial estate in Oldbury.
