Lesley Robertson wrote: > "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 No, I'll have a look-see from there, Lesley. Thanks. Cheryl