THIS Practice Often Resulted in there Being More that One Famiy Member being with the SAME FIRST & LAST NAME Augusta County Land Records The Augusta County land records, during the period 1745-1772, contain many references to members of the Campbell family and families allied to the Campbells by marriage, i.e., the Cunninghams, Hamiltons and Lockharts. This _hyperlinked table_ (http://philnorf.tripod.com/table-.htm) summarizes the genealogically more pertinent information. Campbell Marriage Practices The most notable and discernible marriage practice followed by both the "Black David" and "White David" Campbells of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, is the frequency of cousin marriages or at least marriages within the Campbell Clan. One result of this consanguinity is that the author of this essay is a direct descendant of both Black David Campbell and his brother Robert! This _hyperlinked table_ (http://philnorf.tripod.com/table-1.htm) provides some examples of these cousin marriages, including the degrees of consanguinity from both the Civil and Canon Law perspectives, for members of the "Black David" and "White David" families. Campbell Child Naming Practices In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both the Scots and the Irish had a frequently used scheme for child naming.<THIS often Created THE PROBLEM OF Haveing More tan One Member of MANY Families With More than One menber with the SAME FIRST & LAST NAME, <One of My Afilated Families <THE STINNETT Family has as many or more of the SAME FIRST & LAST SAME NAMES IT wasn't just the Campbell's who used this child nameing Practice, Which to day causes MUCH PROBLEM IN Research because our LIVEING RESEARCHERS Fail to alow fow the fact that our ancestors, NAMED THEIR Children after, GRANNY & GRAND PA, I Fathered two sons, Neither A Jr; One of My Late Brothers Fathered two sons BOTH WITH HIS First Last Names; PLEASE NOTE, That our Ancestors, >From SCOTLAND & IRELAND WERE likely to name a SON AFTER both GRAND FATHERS & Father <???> SAY BOTHER GRAND FATHERS WERE With the same first NAME <?> and the fatrher was a john JR, THATwould result in there being thre being three sons neing Named JOHN ! Then John, JR's Pa comeing home to live with HI SON< JUST LOOK, FOR A FACTthere are now, 5 John Campbell's in that HOUSE HOLD resulting in the use of NICK NAMES. NOW THA NON Believers,??> WELL get real & try to expln the FACT that there is a GEORGE & BUCK REUNION ON PINEY RIVER SO OFTEN, COUSINS The Child Nameing Practice was A FACT in Our ANCESTRY, ?? FORGET THAT PRACTICE, & your Family research is BOGGED DOWN, BEFORE YOU TRY TO REMIND CUZ AT THAT THS WAS A BLACK & WHITE DAVID CAMPBELL PRACTIEE PLEASE NOTE THAT IT CAME FROM SCOTLAND THE SAME PLACE THAT OUR CAMPBELL ANCESTORS CAME FROM. COURSE, We have Very good researhers who Match <D. N. A. In Two American Locatins & Also in BARBADOS, & Can not understand that the ANCESTORS <COULD HAVE> Left the OLD Country of DIFFERENT BOATS, BE CAUSE HE REFUSES TO alow for the CHILD NAMEING PROSESS. I HONEESTLY belive THAT the greatesst ,ASSETT THAT WE HAVVE IS THAT OUR ANCESTORS HAD no input in the selecion of our ANCESTORS CUZ A T COUSINS PLEASE REPLY WITH YOUR QUESTions & ANSWERS CUZ AT The first born male child was normally named after the paternal grandfather; likewise, the first borne female child was named after the maternal grandmother. The second borne male child was named after the maternal grandfather and the second borne female child was named after the paternal grandmother. Only with the third born son and daughter, did you use the names of the parents, if those names differed from those of the grandparents. In many but not all cases, this naming scheme seems to have been used by the Southwest Virginia Campbell families that are discussed at this web site. ____________________________________