Further to my recent postings, I just loved that name I found -William Westmoreland PEET. Sounds like something you would buy from a garden centre!! What an unusual second Christian name. Second Christian names when they have been surnames are very helpful in tracing trees, and have certainly helped me. In my COOKE line I have OWEN and TIMMS as previous - usually female - surnames occurring through many generations from the mid 1700s to the present day. The same applies to my EAGLESFIELD line. However the most unusual second Christian name I have is for my maternal great grandmother, who was Mary Inkerman LEE, named after the battle in the Crimean War from the year she was born. There is no direct connection with a family member who may have fought in this battle. Imagine a child nowadays being named John Helmand Smith, or from many years ago, Mary Falklands Jones. Brian Binns

Hi Brian and others I too have surnames as Christian names, notably in my family, DUROSE. If anyone has DUROSE from Nottingham I would love to hear from you, the name originates in Stafforshire, mainly around Uttoxeter, but my line moved to Nottingham in about 1901. Liz P On 9 January 2014 11:12, Brian Binns <bnbinns@gmail.com> wrote: > Further to my recent postings, I just loved that name I found -William > Westmoreland PEET. Sounds like something you would buy from a garden > centre!! What an unusual second Christian name. > > > > Second Christian names when they have been surnames are very helpful in > tracing trees, and have certainly helped me. In my COOKE line I have OWEN > and TIMMS as previous - usually female - surnames occurring through many > generations from the mid 1700s to the present day. The same applies to my > EAGLESFIELD line. However the most unusual second Christian name I have is > for my maternal great grandmother, who was Mary Inkerman LEE, named after > the battle in the Crimean War from the year she was born. There is no > direct > connection with a family member who may have fought in this battle. > > Imagine a child nowadays being named John Helmand Smith, or from many years > ago, Mary Falklands Jones. > > > > Brian Binns > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

my favourite from my research is Goldsmith Waghorn Booker..... named after the maiden names of his grandmothers ! Sarah :) www.lilyrose.org 'Don’t judge a person by what you see, for looks do not tell their history, a vivacious past, a quiet soul, our own past is what makes us whole' SRW 2008 > From: bnbinns@gmail.com > To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:12:18 +0000 > Subject: [NTT] Unusual middle names > > Further to my recent postings, I just loved that name I found -William > Westmoreland PEET. Sounds like something you would buy from a garden > centre!! What an unusual second Christian name. > > > > Second Christian names when they have been surnames are very helpful in > tracing trees, and have certainly helped me. In my COOKE line I have OWEN > and TIMMS as previous - usually female - surnames occurring through many > generations from the mid 1700s to the present day. The same applies to my > EAGLESFIELD line. However the most unusual second Christian name I have is > for my maternal great grandmother, who was Mary Inkerman LEE, named after > the battle in the Crimean War from the year she was born. There is no direct > connection with a family member who may have fought in this battle. > > Imagine a child nowadays being named John Helmand Smith, or from many years > ago, Mary Falklands Jones. > > > > Brian Binns > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> To: <NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:12 AM Subject: [NTT] Unusual middle names <snip> > Brian Binns > My own family regularly used maternal surnames as middle names, and as given names too. My own father has a given name which is his grandmother's maiden name on one side, and a middle name which is his own mother's maiden name. My great-grandfather had several middle names which I'm sure were a clue to his father but I have never been able to work it out: Frederick Thomas Major Horace Jesson (b. 1872). His mother never married, and so he was illegitimate, but there was always a family story about a "rich French actor" being implicated. I wrote an article about this in "Theatrical Roots", Your Family History, #24, February 2012, p.42. Tony Proctor