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From: Patricia Frykberg <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Naming customs [was: Being PC in History??]
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:26:51 +1200
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I was given a third name CRANSWICK at baptism. I always hid it until
doing genealogy and what a boon it was. My father must have had a sense of
the past because when searching in Natal for my grandmother's parentage I
came across the name. I really got a shock.Since then have discovered it was
my g.grandmother's maiden name and I have now established some amazing
connections and coincidences
It was a large family in Bridlington E.Yks. My g.gran came with husband to
Natal. Two brothers came to NZ and would you believe that a descendent of
one of them lives in the next street?
Pat
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From: "John Brown" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Naming customs [was: Being PC in History??]


> "Elizabeth Willoughby" <> wrote :
>
> >In America, second names usually have no meaning at all. My second,
> >or middle name is Lee, which is my mother's maiden name. However, I
> >have yet to meet someone who's second name is used like that. My
> >mother is English, however, maybe she brought it over from England!
>
> Using a mother's maiden name as a second, or third, forename is
> something that has been used in the UK in the past but is rarely seen
> today. I have numerous examples in my own tree, but it was not a regular
> occurrence and I don't think I have any post 1905.
>
> On a similar theme but involving use of the father's surname, this was
> often used in cases of illegitimacy, when the father's surname was added
> as a second forename for the child.
>
> John B
> Leic., Eng.
>
>
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