On 01/02/2015 15:37, cecilia wrote: >> On 01/02/2015 14:07, hownhelcymru wrote: >>> "There are quite a few death's for Violet Geary listed on Ancestry. Most >>> of them have a middle name but as a Catholic (presumably) she may have >>> adopted her baptismal name" >>> Could you explain this please? >>> Is this an English practice? >>> Helenor Jones > > Graeme Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's a Catholic practice but not necessarily widespread. When you are >> baptised you get a baptismal (saint's) name that may or may not be one >> of your existing names. In some cases that name may get adopted as part >> of the person's name in later life. I've no idea how common a practice >> it is but it may explain why someone with no middle name at birth >> acquires one in later life. > > http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/CanABirthCertificateBeChanged.html > explains whwn and how one can change the information that appears on a > birth certificate in the different parts of the UK: England and Wales, > Scotland, Northern Ireland. > In this case she wouldn't necessarily have changed her birth certificate but when she came to be married she could have used it as her full name hence causing confusion to researchers. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>

On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:29:42 +0000, Graeme Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >On 01/02/2015 15:37, cecilia wrote: >>> On 01/02/2015 14:07, hownhelcymru wrote: >>>> "There are quite a few death's for Violet Geary listed on Ancestry. Most >>>> of them have a middle name but as a Catholic (presumably) she may have >>>> adopted her baptismal name" >>>> Could you explain this please? >>>> Is this an English practice? >>>> Helenor Jones >> >> Graeme Wall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It's a Catholic practice but not necessarily widespread. When you are >>> baptised you get a baptismal (saint's) name that may or may not be one >>> of your existing names. In some cases that name may get adopted as part >>> of the person's name in later life. I've no idea how common a practice >>> it is > I've found it to be fairly common when a child has the same first name as their parent although often a case of being known by the middle name but documented by the first or first and middle names. >>> but it may explain why someone with no middle name at birth >>> acquires one in later life. >> >> http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/CanABirthCertificateBeChanged.html >> explains whwn and how one can change the information that appears on a >> birth certificate in the different parts of the UK: England and Wales, >> Scotland, Northern Ireland. >> > >In this case she wouldn't necessarily have changed her birth certificate >but when she came to be married she could have used it as her full name >hence causing confusion to researchers.