This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Toole Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3h.2ADE/374.370.2 Message Board Post: Mt great grand mother was a Bridget Toole from Madison Indiana. Her father Martin Toole and wife Mary Bolden married in Madison in Sept. 30 , 1849. They also had a son names John. Irish traditions of naming children. The firstborn son was named after the father's father. The second son after the mother's father. The third son after the father and then each subsequent son after siblings of the parents. The first daughter was named after the mother's mother, second after the father's mother, third after the mother and same as sons for subesquent. I bet there is a connection. For other information see my web page http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/John-Robert-christopher-Bradley/