Naming Paterns

[bleckie]

Good Morning All

Silly question time again
In England do families have the same sort of naming patern as we do in Scotland

yours Aye
BruceL

[emanday]

Hi Bruce,

I've also been researching my English son-in-law's ancestry and have found that there doesn't seem to be such a regular use of naming patterns.

Some of his ancestors did, quite strictly, while others did not. He even has one ancestor who appears to have been named after a ship owned by his father

And yes, I've checked, the ship DID come first as his father was shown as its master and owner in a census before the poor wee soul was even born

[scooter]

Likewise, I've researched my wife's side of the family and there's no real pattern at all, names come up throughout time and never appear again. In addition to this, some of her modern-day cousins seem to have had a hard time with the fact that all our children have surnames for middle names and keep thinking we've changed our last name. I guess it's not terribly prevalent in England to do that either?

[emanday]

Hi Scooter,

Yes, I've noticed that they rarely use surnames as middle names in England.

The only instances I've found so far (two in total) are where a widow/widower remarried and a child from the second marriage was given the dead spouse's surname as a middle name.

[trish1]

The english families in my research (1700s & 1800s) do seem to use the same set of given names repeatedly, but not with the strictness of the Scottish naming pattern. They also used the given names from the paternal side much more than the names from the maternal side.

When they arrived in Australia 1830s onwards - some of my gg and g grandparents married into Scottish families - at that time using surnames as given names became very common - not sure who had that idea, but probably the Scottish half

Trish