Please don't get hung up on this nameing pattern - it was popular among the Holland Dutch and the German descendants but was not among the British not many others. Some rejected it completely because it smacked too much of the home thay had left, and they wanted to start afresh. Agnes Cloninger >At 08:11 PM 7/13/2000 , you wrote: >>Can someone please tell me the typical naming order of children in the 1800s? >>Who was the first son named after? second son? first daughter? etc. etc. etc. >> >>Thanks. >>Pat > > >>Following is a list from Barbara Taylor on Prodigy 5/30/93: >> >> 1st son for father's father ---snip---