Hello List, I get the impression that when some children were named for a grandparents other relative in the 1800s they were just given the first name at baptism. Then later in life the surname of that same ancestor was added. Has anyone else found this? Margaret Templeton later became Margaret Sim Templeton Murdoch Morrison later became Murdoch McNeill Morrison Cheers, Mary

This information about the extra middle name is interesting. I have a Robert Andrew Menzies in Argyll who, by the time he was married, had become Robert Andrew Rutherford Menzies. He clung to that name from then on. But we never figured out where he got it from. My best guess is that he had a maternal grand-aunt in Perth who married an Andrew Rutherford and he wanted to impress them. (Maybe Andrew was well-to-do!) I've no proof of any of this, mind you. He did go to Perth from Oban for his wedding at the Temperance Hotel, though. Some of this sort of thing still goes on in the US. I know a woman who discovered she supposedly had an early Dutch settler on her family tree, and quickly adopted Ten Eyck into the middle of her rather ordinary Irish name. Sheila in Missouri