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From: poples <>
Subject: Re: beard ,smith, mc elwee, dooley
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:08:00 -0500
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It can happen that parents give only an Initial Name for the first and
middle name. My father's name is initials only. His was H A Beard! Now
allot of people had fun with those initials as one can imagine. But, he
was very good natured about the different names he was called. When he
went to sign up for the Army the recruiter told him to pick a name that
he would like to be called otherwise he would be called Only because
when writing his name they had to put H A (only) Beard. He chose Jack
because of an uncle and the nickname stuck until his death.
Pat

Janet Jilote wrote:
>
> I've seldom heard of a person giving a child a middle
> initial without the name included. I have seen however,
> where an initial was used throughout a lifetime for several
> reasons, such as there was a dispute over the name, the name
> was weird or unliked, or the name was too long to be written
> out. And in the case where a child was given just a middle
> initial it was done so in reference to another person's name
> whose middle name was already known, or unknown.
> Perhaps they did name him after a person that was called by
> "John W." and they did not know his middle name. In this
> case I would check relatives with similar names. I would not
> however, relinquish the fact that he had a full middle name,
> unless you have seen christening records, or baptism
> records. These would be the best indications of full names.
>
> In the case of my own grandfather, he grew up in an
> orphanage after his parents died shortly after his birth. He
> then had two different aunts take him to be christened. He
> had two different christening records, one with Christian,
> and one with the name Cortez, as middle names. However, on
> his birth certificate the name Christian was given. So, to
> avoid conflict my grandfather just used the initial "C"
> throughout his lifetime.
>
> Just a Thought,
>
> Janet N Jilote
> searching for BEARDs in SC.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
>
> Paula,
>
> My grandfather's name was just John W. Beard, no
> middle name

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