Back then people named their children for someone with their full name, so he would have been named for George Plum, who was usually a relative, a grandparent, but he could have been another kind of relative or an admired friend or neighbor, even doctor, political or religious figure, hence all the George Washington ____s, William Wallace _____s if they were Scottish, and John Wesley _____s if they were Methodist, etc. Really it could be anyone they wanted to pay respect to. My great grandmother's name was Anna Debinder Ayres, Anna Debinder was her mother's sister in law, and Debinder was her married name, the name that my gg grandmother knew her by, not her maiden name like we use in genealogy. I even have a relative with "double" name, Joseph Reeder Reeder, who used Joseph R. Reeder. He was named for his grandfather Joseph Reeder, kind of funny, huh? The most likely scenario is that a George Plum was his paternal grandfather, esp if he is the second born son, as usually the first born son was named for the father's father and the second for the mother's father. With girls it works, mother's mother, then father's mother, then it goes father or mother, then father's oldest brother, mother's oldest sister, etc. > PLUM .. WHY is my 3rd GGrandfather's "Middle name" PLUM ? His full > name is George Plum WOOLEY