I had one family that named 3 of their children John and one Jonathan! We did find records where the first John died before the second and the second before the third, etc. This was a German family and I know they always wanted to follow the line. However, I haven't figured out where the Jonathan came in when there was already a John who hadn't died yet. However, again the first ones named John were born in Germany and the Jonathan in the US after the family got here. Wonder it the family decided on Jonathan or if some one said that was the correct name for John. That happened with my friends son. Wanted to name him Rick or Rickie and the registrar said no not a proper name - had to be Richard! And that was in 1950! -----Original Message----- From: Quint Hart [mailto:qhart@plmw.com] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:02 PM To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Boyd] Scottish and Irish Boyds The Scots-Irish took the naming pattern one step further. 1st son after the fraternal grandfather, 2nd son after the maternal grandfather, usually the 3rd son after the father or favorite relative and the 4th son after the fraternal grandfather, again, if that 1st chid had died. Occasionally you will find some family not sticking to this pattern, but for the most part they did. Emalu At 10:36 AM 7/30/05 -0400, you wrote: >Isn't that only true with the first and second son? If they had a third or >fourth son who would they have been named after? I believe this was also >true in the German lineages. >Karen in FL. > >-----Original Message----- ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees