Good Afternoon, I would be interested in knowing how you came about with the middle name of "Taylor" for Jonathan Buck. I've been researching almost 40 years on Jonathan and his family and have never seen the name of "Taylor" or any middle name for him or his son Jonathan. I am descended through his youngest son, Isaac. Thanks, Cynthia Buck-Thompson buck1755@ix.netcom.com >Message: 2 >Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:14:28 -0800 >From: "Lee Gossage" <goosewoods@chartertn.net> >Subject: Re: [BUCK] Morgan Buck >To: <buck@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <20061113051431.JVIO11537.aa05.charter.net@goosewoo36c89d> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >I don't know if this will help or hurt some of the discussions about the >"Jonathan" name who married Zuriah, but I have him as "Jonathon Taylor Buck, >Sr.". And his son, Jonathan Taylor Buck, Jr. married Glaphy Denton. >Thought I would toss that out for everyone to ponder. At 03:04 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote:

A Buck researcher wrote: > I would be interested in knowing how you came about with the middle name > of > "Taylor" for Jonathan Buck. I've been researching almost 40 years on > Jonathan and his family and have never seen the name of "Taylor" or any > middle name for him or his son Jonathan. I have read that sometimes before the 19th century a county clerk in recording a deed, etc., might attach a middle name to distinguish persons with the same name from each other. For example, John Smith has a nephew John Smith, living in the same county. A clerk or other official might tack in a middle name to avoid confusion in the legal records. If our younger John Smith, for example, lived in the Jones community, the clerk might write: "John Jones Smith." Or if the younger John Smith's father were Thomas, the clerk might write: "John Thomas Smith." Or stranger still, the clerk might call him "John Smith, Jr.," thereby really confusing us. This may account for middle names that are not consistent through the years. This is probably not the case in the instance you are discussing., but I guess it is a point to file away in the back of our minds. Warmest Regards, Donna Descended from John Henry Buck of Louisa County, VA.