YES, i know that this SAYS THIS ABOUT THE Black & WhiteDavid Campbells BUT With as Many members of OUR Campbell Family WithTHE SAME FIRST & LAST NAMES: I had rather believe this was THE CHILD NAMEING PRACTICE OF THE HOME COUNTRY OF THE CAMPBELLS THAT SETTLED In VA' SURE with this only being A PRACTICE NO ONE WAS REQUIRED TO FOLLOW IT STANDS TO reason that with so many people with the same FIRST & LAST NAMES THE IDEA CAME from some where & not just by acident. CUZ AT 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. 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.