Surnames (General)

by Joss O\'Kelly , Sunday, August 20, 2006, 13:43 (6671 days ago) @ bertha

Hi Bertha

There are several non-FOD instances of this in my family. I have a George Edward Pewtner who married an Esther Stone in Bristol and all but one of their half a dozen children, girls and boys, had Stone as the middle name. These children born 1819 to 1829.
Then I have a Susannah Barns Lovering born 1792 who married Thomas Tucker in Berrynarbor, Devon. Her mother was Catherine Barns. Susannah and Thomas's children didn't have the middle name thing, but the eldest of them, Thomas Tucker b Berrynarbor 1820, called two of his children, who were born in Newport, Thomas Barns Tucker (1854) and Edward Lovering Tucker (1856).
Have other examples too but these notable for overkill in one family and skipping a generation. So it was definitely a West Country custom as well. And it certainly makes tracing them easier!

Joss