----- Original Message ----- From: "Ros Fletcher" <rosfletcher@iprimus.com.au> To: "IOW Mailing List" <ISLE-OF-WIGHT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:20 PM Subject: [IoW] Lavinia WILLIAMS >[...] I wonder why Sarah would want to > give her daughter her brother-in-law's > surname? > > [...] mother [...] was the innkeeper > of the Vine Inn then in Pier St. By 1851 > Sarah's husband, Thomas > SANDERS, had taken over. [...] In my line, a brother-in-law's name was given to two (out of a pack of) children. I've assumed that it is probably (a) because it is now the sister's name or (b) a godparently relationship occurred.