This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robbins, Hewey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SOC.2ACE/906.1.1.1 Message Board Post: A little knowledge of history can greatly enhance a person's genealogical pursuits. I would love to have a dollar for every baby boy born in the mid 1800's who was given the middle name Wellington. Do an online search on the Duke of Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo and you will see why. Often a child will be named after a famous figure and then it will be carried through for a couple of generations but it usually has more to do with the time period the child was born in than any family history. Burdette