Received this from another list... Enjoy. R/S MAK ps Our family was NOT named this way, drat! > OLD NAMING PATTERNS > > >The first son was named after the father's father. > >The second son was named after the mother's father. > >The third son was named after the father. > >The fourth son was named after the fathers eldest brother. > >The first daughter was named after the mother's mother. > >The second daughter was named after the father's mother. > >The third daughter was named after the mother. > >The fourth daughter was named after the mothers eldest sister, always. > > > ALSO: > 2nd wife's oldest daughter named after the first wife, using her full > name. > Children after those listed above were usually named after a favorite > relative with some possible exceptions: > If a child died in infancy, a later child might be given the same name. > When a newly ordained minister baptized his first child, if that child > were a boy, he would be named for the minister, if a girl, she would receive > his surname as her middle name. > If a child were fostered, usually because of being orphaned, he may be > named for the foster parent. > If you are sure that you have the earliest birth or baptisms and that > they are in the correct order then, if John's first son is named Charles and > his second daughter is named Elizabeth then John's parents must be Charles > and Elizabeth. > > > ===== ===== TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/TheStorm USC NROTC Alumni http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~uscnrotc/ MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

My grandfather described their family naming pattern his own way. I've pasted it from his memoirs into this e-mail for you to enjoy. He had a wonderful old-time sense of humor with strong "old-country, logging and farming traditions woven throughout. Short and sweet was his type of story telling. If you wish to read more of his funny but (mostly) true offerings please go to the address below. I think lovingly and longingly of he and my grandma, Jack and Kate, every Thanksgiving and thought you might like to share in it a little, just this once (also pictures of them) Rita - Oconto County: (more at) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/memoirsPhilippi.htm Name Game It was the custom to name children in certain ways back then. First boy was named after the father's father; first girl was after the mother's mother, etc. After running out of grandparents, the names came from the parent's brothers and sister. We ran out of them, too. It was all Ma and Pa could do to find enough friends and neighbors to finish up the lot of us. That meant there were some repeats. Pa had a son named John Francis in his first family of children. Ma had a son named John Miller in her first family of children. When I finally came along, they named me John Appolinarus. Every once in a while Ma would turn to Pa and say "your John and my John are picking on our John again." MAK wrote: > Received this from another list... Enjoy. R/S MAK > ps Our family was NOT named this way, drat! > > > OLD NAMING PATTERNS > > > > >The first son was named after the father's father. > > >The second son was named after the mother's father.