sorry this is off topic but with the discussion on names I just have to jump in here and share my story about naming my son last year. My husband and I had a hard time deciding on a name for him. We had narrowed it down to few by the time he was born but still had no name. On my 3rd day in the hospital we finally agreed on Kolton Andrew. Kolton because we liked the name and Andrews was my mother-in-laws maiden name. Even after naming him I still wasn't really happy with the name, I had really wanted to come up with something that reflected family history. All our Children have names that begin with K and I couldn't come up with anything. The only K name I have in my direct line is KRAMM and I certainly wasn't going to name my son that! I also wasn't happy because the name Kolton means Coal town and it just made no sense to me to name him this. When my son was less than a year old I finally had one of my brickwalls come tumbling down. I found that my gg-grandfather had established a coal town in Illinois that bears his name. His father's name was Andrew. Now my sons name makes perfect sense and I am glad we chose it. Mary the funny thing is no one calls him Kolton anyway, we could have named him anything, he is called Pee Wee because when he had no name in the hospital my then 2 year old started calling him that and even the nurses started using it. Someday he will probably be 6'5 and 250+ pounds like his father and people will still be calling him pee wee :-)
Thanks for sharing this story. You made me smile. By the way....the short men in my family are a minimum 6 feet tall. Kathie ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Kocak <Mary_K@centurytel.net> To: <FISHER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 5:27 AM Subject: [FISHER] off topic...names > sorry this is off topic but with the discussion on names I just have to jump in here and share my story about naming my son last year. My husband and I had a hard time deciding on a name for him. We had narrowed it down to few by the time he was born but still had no name. On my 3rd day in the hospital we finally agreed on Kolton Andrew. Kolton because we liked the name and Andrews was my mother-in-laws maiden name. > Even after naming him I still wasn't really happy with the name, I had really wanted to come up with something that reflected family history. All our Children have names that begin with K and I couldn't come up with anything. The only K name I have in my direct line is KRAMM and I certainly wasn't going to name my son that! I also wasn't happy because the name Kolton means Coal town and it just made no sense to me to name him this. > When my son was less than a year old I finally had one of my brickwalls come tumbling down. I found that my gg-grandfather had established a coal town in Illinois that bears his name. His father's name was Andrew. Now my sons name makes perfect sense and I am glad we chose it. > > Mary > the funny thing is no one calls him Kolton anyway, we could have named him anything, he is called Pee Wee because when he had no name in the hospital my then 2 year old started calling him that and even the nurses started using it. Someday he will probably be 6'5 and 250+ pounds like his father and people will still be calling him pee wee :-) > > > > > ==== FISHER Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > Need to post long-term query? > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.fisher > or choose from many other options at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/f/i/FISHER/ > ----------------- > >