Yes, outside of Lincolnshire I have some lines in which the surname of a female (usually from a prestigious family) became an ongoing first name of one of her children or grandchildren. In fact the names Cam and Gyde as first names within the Heaven family have persisted over many generations, from the 1600s into the late 1800s at least. Happy hunting!   Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) Now in Rochester, NY, USA i have come across Quickfall as a surname in Lincs, it was not unusual for parents to give the firstborn the maiden name of it's mother as a christian name, i have several examples of this in my tree most notably Raby Matthews, so of William Matthew and Mary Raby. regards Elaine Westaway   ________________________________ From: Diana Robinson <drobins6@rochester.rr.com> To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2012, 3:14 Subject: Re: [LIN] names I find this one interesting as a few years ago I had a college student in my classes (in the U.S.) whose first name was Quickfall - I always had difficulty in remembering it was his first, and not last, name. Happy hunting!   Diana Robinson (nee Gardner) Now in Rochester, NY, USA -----Original Message----- From: J & B.H. Stegeman [mailto:beverley.stegeman@bigpond.com] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 5:43 PM To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [LIN] names I found that my Quickfall girls when they married often called a child fist name  Quickfall eg; Quickfall Brown. All I have to do then is find a Miss Quickfall marrying a Mr  Brown in BMD's Bev on Bribie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message