Re: Middle Names
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Middle Names
Fred Lillibridge 12/03/10
Hi Fred!
My great-grandparents usedfamily surnames (from parents or grandparents) as middle names for their 3 children, born between 1912 and 1917.
My grandmother's middle name was Ross ( her mother's surname),her brother's was also Ross, her sister's middle name was Mackenzie ( maternal grandmother's surname).
There seems to have been some sort of trendin the family after the end of the 19th century (before that time the ancestors lived in gaelic speaking areas - Argyll and Skye- and rarely had middle names).
My other great-grandmother's sister and brother's middle names were "Watson Bain" (eg: Jessie Watson Bain Maclauchlan, daughter of Angus Maclauchlan and Jane Mackenzie). The strange thing is that they weren't related to anyone called Watson or Bain.
I hope this will help.
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Fred Lillibridge 12/09/10
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