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From: "on007h2295" <>
Subject: Re: [LAN] naming patterns
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:06:28 -0000
References: <003f01c4d9ac$c7159820$e76b36d2@mycomput> <007f01c4d9db$ff431c70$35514354@BERRYBROW2003>


Hi Ron

Sorry this is nothing todo with your message, I saw your surname and was
interested as the spelling was the same as mine, My name is Olive Nourse and
I live in Bristol, My fathers name was Arthur and was born South Wales, his
parents came from Hereford. I was wondering where you surame came from?

Email

regards Olive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nourse" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LAN] naming patterns


> Hi Ray
>
> I put the following on the list back in October, after a similar question
> was posted.
>
> QUOTE
>
> I got this from I don't know where, some months ago, and it is amazing how
> some of my ancestors in Preston adhered to it, or something very close to
> it. In my limited experience it was a popular practice up to perhaps the
> mid-nineteenth century, but thereafter seemed to break down.
>
> Males
>
> First born son - named for father's father
> Second son - mother's father
> Third son - father
> Fourth son - father's eldest brother
> Fifth son - father's second oldest brother or mother's eldest brother
>
> Females
> First born daughter - mother's mother
> Second daughter - father's mother
> Third daughter - mother
> Fourth daughter - mother's eldest sister
> Fifth daughter - mother's second oldest sister or father's oldest sister
>
> I guess that after the fifth of either gender, exhaustion of every kind
> set
> in exclam.
>
> In one of my lines a "Charles" had three sons, all of whom named their
> first
> son "Charles". Luckily they were born some years apart, so were not too
> difficult to separate on the family tree. One of the same family named
> three
> sons in succession after himself, but they all died in infancy. He was
> lucky
> at the fourth attempt, and #4 outlived him.
>
> These were not rules, of course, but traditions, and can if nothing else
> provide a little clue here and there as to inter-relationships.
>
> I like to think that as these were people who arrived in this world with
> nothing, and left with nothing, all that they could do to ensure that were
> remembered was to pass on their given names in this way.....
>
> UNQUOTE
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "raygret" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 2:54 AM
> Subject: [LAN] naming patterns
>
>
>> Please does a lister know if during the 1700,s and
>> 1800,s the English
>> families adhered to a naming pattern for their
>> children.
>> Ray Murphy in New Zealand.
>>
>>
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>> Census availability:
>> http://www.mit.edu/%7Edfm/genealogy/census-chart.html
>>
>>
>
>
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