> Hi I too have a family name as a middel name David Brown Lang , maternal grandmother's maiden name, my brother has my paternal grandmothers names as his. My PaternalGrandfather had his mothers maiden name as his middel name and my Paternal Grandmother was Elizabeth Richardson Rollo Denovan Mackie. Her middle names being her mothers maiden name , her granmothers maiden name and her grandmothers first husbands surname 9 she being from the second marriage !!! Also many more examples in my tree it all adds up to making people easier to gind especially if you have Browns and Stewarts like me!! Regards DAVID > From: "Ron & Mary Harris" <[email protected]> > Date: 2006/10/20 Fri PM 12:34:22 BST > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] Use of middle family name/records > > Hi, > > This middle name thing has always puzzled us too! We have several relatives, > of Argyll origins, who suddenly had middle names, where none existed before. > > George MCMILLAN (1856 - 1830) was George Hamilton MCMILLAN by the end of his > life. (Of course his mother was a HAMILTON & he did have a son also named > George, so we can see the reasoning behind taking this middle name.) > > Donald MCKINNON (1884 - 1964), always known as "Dan" to family, evolved to > Donald James Paterson MCKINNON, but this evolved to an entirely new surname > & he was eventually Donald James PATERSON-MCKINNON! (His mother was a > PATERSON, but no Jameses in the family, as far as we can find. And he never > married nor had a namesake son.) > > Both men immigrated - 1 to USA & 1 to Canada. I understand that there may > have been other men of the same name in the area, but it just seems that > adding a new middle name was no big deal years ago. These days, it's an > issue of legality & identity, so it seems odd to us. Another factor for us > to consider when searching for these elusive ancestors of our's! > > Mary > in Canada > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information