I have a question on naming customs. I'm working on the Benders of Kirchardt and have found that on several occassions where a wife has died and the husband remarried, that they named a child born to different mothers with the same father the same name. I have found two Wolffgang Benders in the same line and two Anna Catharina's in the same line born to different mothers with the same father. I have also found children who died and the next child received the dead child's name, but these children are very much alive. Has anyone else come across this? I would also appreciate some clarification to the term " grundbauren" if I have the spelling right. The word for ground and farmer, I read somewhere that it meant they were larger land holding farmers. I have a few translation books, but do not find the term in them. Thank you and thank you for the information on the marriage customs. Mark S. Painter

On the naming conventions I have some examples where a young new child is named for an older married and gone from the house older sibling.  Some the births spanned over 20 years for a father with different wives.    Laura >________________________________ > From: Mark Painter <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:28 AM >Subject: [BW] Naming Customs > >I have a question on naming customs. I'm working on the Benders of >Kirchardt and have found that on several occassions where a wife has died >and the husband remarried, that they named a child born to different >mothers with the same father the same name. I have found two Wolffgang >Benders in the same line and two Anna Catharina's in the same line born to >different mothers with the same father. I have also found children who died >and the next child received the dead child's name, but these children are >very much alive. Has anyone else come across this? I would also appreciate >some clarification to the term " grundbauren" if I have the spelling right. >The word for ground and farmer, I read somewhere that it meant they were >larger land holding farmers. I have a few translation books, but do not >find the term in them. Thank you and thank you for the information on the >marriage customs. Mark S. Painter > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I have found a child was given a name at birth and died in the same year of birth. Several years later another new born child was given the same name. It was the name of the grandfather. It looks like the mother and father wanted to have a child honoring the grandparents name. This naming convention is quite common. Since newborn death was more common 100+ years ago I would suspect this re-naming convention may have been quite common. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Painter Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BW] Naming Customs I have a question on naming customs. I'm working on the Benders of Kirchardt and have found that on several occassions where a wife has died and the husband remarried, that they named a child born to different mothers with the same father the same name. I have found two Wolffgang Benders in the same line and two Anna Catharina's in the same line born to different mothers with the same father. I have also found children who died and the next child received the dead child's name, but these children are very much alive. Has anyone else come across this? I would also appreciate some clarification to the term " grundbauren" if I have the spelling right. The word for ground and farmer, I read somewhere that it meant they were larger land holding farmers. I have a few translation books, but do not find the term in them. Thank you and thank you for the information on the marriage customs. Mark S. Painter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message