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From: Ida Skarson McCormick <>
Subject: Re: [APG] 1700's naming of children
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:32:53 -0700
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Linda:

Please post an example, with names, dates, and places. If they were
in the American colonies, what was their country of origin?

--Ida Skarson McCormick,

At 07:22 AM 7/20/2008, "Linda Snow Davis" <> wrote:
>?? Can some of you refresh my memory as to the order of naming the
>children in the 1700's.? I believe there was a pattern to it, where
>the first born was given the middle name to be that of one of the
>parents surnames, and the second born the other parents surname and
>down the line using grandparents surnames.
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