Did anything in particular happen in 1884 (in SC or GA) that might cause a man to name his 2nd child TAYLOR when it wasn't a family name on either his side or his wife's? I was thinking Zachary Taylor, but he'd been dead 34 years by then ... :( I know a lot of kids were given politically-related names during election years, and since I can't find ol' Taylor as Taylor after 1900, I thought maybe if I had a 2nd name to look at/for I might turn him up. Cheryl

"singhals" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Did anything in particular happen in 1884 (in SC or GA) that might cause > a man to name his 2nd child TAYLOR when it wasn't a family name on > either his side or his wife's? > > I was thinking Zachary Taylor, but he'd been dead 34 years by then ... :( > > I know a lot of kids were given politically-related names during > election years, and since I can't find ol' Taylor as Taylor after 1900, > I thought maybe if I had a 2nd name to look at/for I might turn him up. > Cheryl, have you checked the names of the local medics? I had a couple of mystery names that suddenly turned up in two (unrelated until my father's generation at least 100 years later) families - turned out to have come from a midwife and a doctor who had presumably saved bad situations (one of the mothers involved died birthing her next child). A parish had a whole rash of children given the same name as the newly-born (and long-awaited) heir to the loyal Laird! One Minister actually said in his baptism record who the children he baptised were named for! Lesley Robertson