The idea that Jane Lyons was suggesting is similar to an identification process used by Queens County descendants I know of. Two Timothy Finley's who emigrated to the same small farming area in Wisconsin were identified by one using the first letter of his wife's last name as his middle initial: he was Timothy R. Finley. The other one, our ancestor, was not identified with his wife's initial: he would have been Timothy O., if he had been. So the idea of using another family member as an identification is at least similar. Joyce