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

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

Thank you for your reply , do you remember his last name by any chance Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Robinson" <drobins6@rochester.rr.com> To: <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 1:14 PM 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4849 - Release Date: 03/03/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4849 - Release Date: 03/03/12

I hope I'm not violating her privacy, but I had classes with a young woman in college who had a boy's name.  William Brian Boyd the 3rd.  Her older brother was William Brian Boyd the 2nd and the younger brother was No. 4.  I know, sounds like an American boxing champ.  I always wondered if they just called out numbers at home when they wanted someone's attention.     She was known to us as "Willie".  I always thought her parents a bit cruel to play this joke on her.  I think of her whenever I hear Johnny Cash sing "My name is Sue".  Now WIllie didn't have any problems with her name, but she did have trouble signing up for Physical Education classes that were for women only.     Some forty years later I had a student in a class I taught who was the child of Hippies from the 1960s.. His name was "Rainbow".  No last name.  He showed me his driver's license to prove it.  When he registered on the school's computer system, it refused a person with only one name, so he did what normally worked with recalcitrant computers, he registered as "A. Rainbow".     When I spoke with one of our registrants about the computer program, she informed me that they also had a 30-character limitation on the last name and that caused problems for some Cambodian students as well as a few Italian surnamed students.    Lou