Hi, also if one son by the name of Johann died in the early years another boy would get the name. Fritz H. Friederich -----Original Message----- From: TBaldy@aol.com <TBaldy@aol.com> To: PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, July 30, 2000 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [PFALZ] which to choose??? >If you guys think that's strange.... I've got the same problem in generation >after generation of Germans. One family had Johann Joseph, Johann Jacob, >Johann Michael, Johann Adam, Johann Nicholas, Johann Peter, etc.... and >only the first born son used the name Johann... the others wen by the middle >name. > >For Girls, I had Anna Maria, Anna Catherine, Anna Regina, Anna Elisabeth, >Anna Christina, and so on... again the first born daughter went by Anna, the >rest by the middle name. One case, the Family ran out of ideas (my thought) >and named one daughter Anna Marie and one Anna Maria and a third Anna >Margaretha. One was Anna, one Maria and one Margaretha. > >In really, really big families, I did notice that this trend seems to >"break". After a whole series of Johann's, there would be the last two sons >who did not carry the symbolic first name. One such family with ten boys >named the last two simply Christian and Arnold (according to the church >records). . > >It seems (in my family anyway) that this practiced stopped when they came to >America. The first genrations born here in the middle 1800's had similar >names, but now were mixing things up and using variations: Nicholas Michael, >Michael Nicholas, John Michael, Andrew Nicholas, Jacob Andrew, Peter >Michael, Julius Andrew, Adolph Michael, and so on. All ther first names being >different, but the middle names being one of the others first names. > >Tim > > >==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== >Going on vacation longer than 4 days? >send your message to Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com (click and ready to go) >mailto:Pfalz-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >