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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Kevinshouse on Friday 12 November 10 17:12 GMT (UK)
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My daughter is pregnant with her first child and has me for a list of names from our family history because she would like to maybe chose one of those for her baby. It sort of started me wondering how or why we decide to call our children what we do (hope I am making myself clear). I was born in December and my grandmother wanted me to be called Carol (my mother didn't agree) and I was called Susan after a friend of my mothers. I called my eldest daughter after a friend of mine and my youngest daughter has a name that I liked very much. I work with children and I know that most love their given name and are very upset if it is pronounced or spelt wrongly.
Do you like your name and is there a story behind it?
Wonder what other Rootschatters think
Kind regards Susan
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Nice idea for a thread, Susan.
I was named after a favourite nephew who was also best man at my parents' wedding. And yes, I like my name.
meles
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I was named after my dad's favourite actress; I like it but only use the "full version" on official documents.
Nanny Jan
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I love my name (Kim). My parents wanted me to have a name that wasn't too girly and couldn't be shortened. I'm also named after Kimball O'Hara from Rudyard Kipling's Book, Kim.
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A good friend of mine is also named Kim, after the book. He has become a bit of an authority of the writer.
meles
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My father could not stand his name and was always known by another name. I don't know why he never legally changed it. When he was buried it was the first time the people who knew him learnt it upon seeing the gravestone.
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Well I recently asked my Poppa why he chose my name, and his answer was ... cos I liked it...
So there you go?!?
xin
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my partner is named after a footballer and i am named after my mums friends daughter well the shortened version of her name , funny but my mum doesnt really see that friend anymore!
my younger sister was going to be called Stacey but my elder sister refused to call her that and named her after one of her school friends !
and finally my twin uncles are called after the two little dickie birds that sat on the wall! it was in the days before scans so my Nan wasnt aware she was having more than one baby she had already picked a name for the first child but didnt know what to call the other so the nurse suggested it so they re Peter and Paul
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I loathe my given name and never use it. Most of my friends don't know that I am not actually called Jen.
My parents looked for names which were 'different' which only resulted in my older sister and me both being given names which we can't stand. My younger sister is totally convinced that she was given a name which is unisex because my mum wanted a boy, but older sister and I both know that if any one of us had been a boy the chosen names would have been Stuart Andrew, which hardly qualifies as unisex.
So all three of us dislike our names.
My daughters each have three christian names. My (ex) husband chose our first baby's first name for no reason other than that he liked it though, in fact, it was also my great grandmother's name. Our second daughter's first name, I chose and I guess it was after one of my flat mates in the late sixties. This daughter is expecting her first baby in January and I think the choice of names will be based purely on personal preference and what goes with their surname. Nothing to do with family names.
In some ways, I think it is a shame that we, for the most part, no longer have naming patterns but if we had, I might have been called something even more hideous than I am! ;D
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My first name was chosen because my parents liked it, and my second name after my great-grandmother, who, from the stories I've heard about her, I grow more like every day ;)
My son's first name was chosen again because we liked it (but it's also the name of one of my great-grandfathers - a good, solid name), his second name after his uncle, and his third name because we felt the need to add an Anglo-Saxon poet's name in there...
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So why the reluctance to show your names ?, i'm Anthony after Anthony Eden, and our next door neighbours son was Neville, after Neville Chamberlin "?", yes we were born in the late 1930s. We have four daughters, Samantha Jayne, Selana Jo, Sararah Jacquline, note all S, J, then the fourth was born, her name Emma Victoria, , not sure why but my wife loves Bronte, and i was born in Victoria, Hepworth, nr. Huddersfield.
Grand children, Stephanie Jo, Christopher, Samuel Joseph, Thomas Kristen, Holly Bexton, Evan Charles, Mia Kate. Amber May, & Anthony Kieran.
So there you go S J for some, then total random names that the parents chose
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I was named after my maternal grandmother. I don't hate my name but I wouldn't have chosen it. I use a shortened form.
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I've no idea why I have my first name (my middle name is my Mum's name so that seems fairly obvious). The only time my mum said something about it was when she told me that when she told her mother what she was going to call me (if I was a girl), her mother said, "Oh I hate that name". Bit strong for the name Elizabeth, but then it was her eldest sister's name, so perhaps there was a bit of history between the two of them.
Lizzie
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I was named after my father's favourite cousin, and yes I like my name
Alison ;D
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Apparently I was named after two nurses in the maternity ward. Suppose I am lucky really they could have been male nurses ;D
Got adopted, new mother kept them but didn't like my first name so have been called by my middle name ever since :-\
Jean
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I was given my name to continue the maternal surname.
My uncle, the last male in the family line to carry the surname Guy was killed in WW2. My elder brother and sister were named after my father and mother and given additional christian names.
Cheers
Guy
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i could have been Gertrude Annie ,thank goodness for the custom of giving a silver coin,so i finished up Sylvia
i have 12 grandchildren 14 great grandchildren ,non have been given my name.
and anyone singing who is Sylvia is not my friend
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My name is Lynne and I was named after a friend of my aunt's who was in the Land Army. Her full name apparently was Leonora, but the girls all called her Lynne. When I was born my Mum was going to call me Anne and my aunt persuaded her to change it to Lynne (thank goodness). I love my name and am very upset when people call me Linda (some people seem to think that Lynne is an abbreviation of Linda and not a name on its own). No disrespect to any Linda's out there!!!!
Busybod
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Apparently I was named after two nurses in the maternity ward.
That has just reminded me that my first name has something to do with the midwife who delivered me. It wasn't her name but I think she possibly suggested it or something of the sort. So there will now be dozens of women in their fifties and sixties, in the Middlesbrough area, all wanting to stick pins in the midwife who named them! ::)
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my auntie who died in February was named after the doctor who delivered her!
my eldest daughter i wanted to call Selina but my Nan told me she would get called Semolina at school :-\ so she wasn't named Selina !
i think though if you know someone with the name already and you dont really like that person you are unlikely to call your child it !
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Hi all,my ancestry is Irish,my christian name is Diarmuid after an early Irish king,my second name is Francis after my father,so that is why i have these names.
Regards Diarmuid. :)
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noxas, like me you have the courage to give your name, why is there a reluctance of posters to give their name ? after all we all use a log in name
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Some of you were named after famous people. My aunt taught a class who were born the same year as Princess Margaret. Seventeen of the girls were called Margaret, eleven of them Margaret Rose. What a nightmare for the teacher.
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I know that when I was given my name, my parents thought it was quite unusual (for the time 1960), but when I went to Infant school, there were three of us in the class.....
Vivien
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I is lovely to hear all your stories of why you have your name. Keep them coming, but I think that we must all agree that most people could not imagine having any other name than the one they have,we sort of grow into our names.
Kind regards Susan
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There were 8 people in my class who shared my name. Very very fashionable at that time, and no, I'm not going to be telling you what it is. Just call me Igor :D
I hate being called by my full name for some reason - it really does upset me (weird, I know) - and have called myself by its shortened version since I got to university, when I decided that I would henceforth be known by the name I chose.
My parents aren't here any more, so there's no-one left to call me by my full name.
But I think you should be called what you want..... I once assisted at an event where people had to wear name tags, and the request was to ask for a tag showing "the name you like to be called".
There was a lady called Angela, and I asked her what she wanted on the name tag, Angela or Angie, or something else?
And I saw her think that Angie was the name of a quite different person, and she was quite taken by the idea that she COULD be that person, at least for the evening. She thought about it just for a bit, and then said no, she thought she would have Angela. She did look a bit disappointed, though.
My children have names which I liked - my daughter has a very unusual name of Italian derivation -
Alessia - and though she once said that she didn't like it, now she really enjoys it being uncommon.
:)
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One of my daughters refuses to use her given name... but thats her choice... dont know why??????
the name I chose was Suzanne... I still quite like it, but the name we are given is not the one we have to live by... I prefer to use the name I chose for myself as well.. But I love the name my father chose.. Mom wanted Pauline.. but Dad decided - and that makes it special to me.
I imagine it is who you know who has the name... I am often influenced by people with the name, as to whether I like the name or not.. depending on the character of the person...
jumbled up post.. sorry brain non functiona..
;D ;D as per
XINIA
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I am called Ted - strange for a female I know - but would you believe it is short for Patricia.
I was named after my mum's sister who died when she was 7 and my mum was 14.
My middle name is after my dad's sister.
So I'm named after 2 aunties - one I never met but was much remembered, and one who was also my God Mother and a huge part of my youth.
I love my name. Cheers Ted
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I am Esdel because there are two!
My "big" brother had a friend he played with, called Esdel.
So in the childish wisdom they all have he was sure that all folk younger than him were "Esdel".
Hence I became Esdel
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My mother hated both her forenames. She was to be christened Jessica Margaret after two aunts. Her father went to register the baby and, on being asked the names - he replied, in his Scottish accent: “Aye, that’ll be Jessie Maggie” - so that was put on the certificate!
Just an aside - had I arrived in the “other variety” I would have been Margaret Olive . . . ::)
John
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Mine is Beverley Rae - My grandmother's name was Rachel, but they shortened it to Rae. Mum wanted to call me Ailsa Rae (which I would have loved), but my brother and sister didn't like it so Beverley I became. (I came along late and I think it was to appease them!!!)
I am known as Rae and when I went to school there was another girl called Rae in my class.
Bev
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My grandparents had 7 children. 5 girls and 2 boys. My grandfather's name was Fred - not Fredick or anything else just Fred.
The boys were named after family members (neither was Fred) and the girls were all mean't to be Fredricka after their dad.
So on 5 occasions he set off to the registry office to register the births of his daughters - shouting as he left the house - "back soon off to register Fredricka".
Guess what - not one of the girls is named Fredricka - he had a change of heart every time and chose another name on the way to the registry office.
LOL, Ted
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My mother wanted to call me Rose but her mother said that she should call me Elizabeth after my father's sister, who never married. Hence the name Elizabeth. (I wonder if my gran was being mercenary, thinking I would have more to inherit ... No, I don't think so.)
Anyway, when at school I thought Elizabeth was a mouthful and sounded posh so I shortened it to Liz.
Only my family call me Elizabeth apart from my husband who has always known me as Liz. If a family or non-family member call me by the other name it sounds weird.
The Greek for Elizabeth is el-ee-SA-vet, which I really like, and sometimes I am called that as I now live in Greece.
Looking back though I wish I had shortened Elizabeth to Beth but count my blessings that I wasn't given the name Rose. (No offence meant to the Roses out there, it is just that Rose wouldn't suit me.)
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My parents liked "Deborah" ... but weren't keen on the spelling. So when the actress Debra Paget appeared, their problem was solved.
Thirty-something years ago, ... my eldest daughter's name came from Frank Herbert's "Dune". We'd bickered over a girl's name for nine months, and as I've mentioned before, we only chose the name on the way to the hospital, with my labour pains three minutes apart, and hubby beginning to panic about all the red lights on the highway. So I opened "Dune" (which, foolishly, I'd thought I might get to read whilst in hospital!) at a random page, and the first female name I came across was the one we used. #1 daughter is, therefore, ... Alia.
And she has red hair, too, - just like Alia Atreides.
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My mother had intended to name me after herself - she has an unusual name. I've only known of 1 other with the name. She didn't in the end because she didn't want people to think she was being narcissistic, but I would have loved the name.
In the end she called me Stephanie and I hate it, very rarely use it, and almost everyone knows me as Kia for the past 12 years or so.
My name was used to bully me (not to mentioned that the spelling got butchered by pretty much everyone too) when I was at junior school which really didn't help and when added with my surname which was also used to bully me I came to despise my name.
Grandma thought it was "pretty" and so for all my early life I was called by Stephanie, not a shortened version, and no one ever thought to use my middle name, even though I used to get so upset with my name.
I was really excited to change my surname when I got married. The year leading up to the wedding I got very much into family history and in the end I kept my maiden name as an additional middle name ::)
My middle name is Ellen, after my mom's maternal Grandma who was Rose Ellen.
Mom is happy for me to ditch my name, she's sad that I didn't like what she chose but understands why I don't like it and thinks I should have a name I like.
My dad and Grandma on the other hand are very against my changing my name.
Hubby and I simply couldn't agree on a name we both liked for our late son. We wanted an older name, but not too old, uncommon, but not too unusual. We didn't want his initials to spell anything odd and it had work work with our surname. In the end we picked his name from a keyring stand in the souvenir shop at Cadbury World! He was Oliver Reece.
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I was named after my mother's step-grandmother--who was estranged/separated from my mother's grandfather. ???
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if i was a boy i was going to be called John George or George John in fact all of my sisters were too (i am one of 6 girls) my nan wanted us to be called Phillip if we were boys after Prince Phillip!
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I'm Jill because my dad told me he wanted me to have a short name because our surname has a lot of letters and it would be tedious filling in forms! Didn't get a middle name either which annoyed me when I was younger. Mum wanted me to be Claire but dad scotched that as he knew an unpleasant old lady of that name.
My brothers got longer names (Philip and Andrew). All three of our names are unique in our family tree.
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This is an interesting thread :)
Myself, my Mum and my Granny were christened Marie-Therese, Marie-Helene and Marie-Louise (complete with hyphens ;D) and yet none of us are called by anything remotely resembling our names.
One of my sons is James. This was before I started researching and discovered that we have added to a long long line of James' on both sides of the family.
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My mum & dad couldn't decide,dad chose the name Barbara and mum wanted Christine so they decided that if I was born with blonde hair I would be Christine and if a brunette I would be Barbara. My hair was white blonde but dad registered me........... ;D
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I am Nesta Gwynne - don't know where they got the Nesta - its the welsh version of Agnes but even though the family is welsh they tended used to use anglicised names.........do you know that's not right have just started thinking about my cousin's who are about my age and they are mostly welsh names - well never actually realised that before. Mum was Gwyneth and I think I got the Gwynne from there.
My father in law was given as a middle name his mother's maiden name and he has always used it as well as his surname; it was also given to all the children - both my sister's in law have hyphenated it and use it as their surname but DH doesn't and I definitely don't - not because of snobbery - just too much to sign. We carried on and gave it to our son who also hyphenates it - our surname is Jones and as soon as he worked out that if he called himself Cooper-Jones he was closer to the top of the register he began to use it !!! His given names are Owen Christopher .......Owen as a family name after my Dad but the first Owen Jones was born in 1798 ! I didn't realise it went that far back before I started researching but knew that there was at least one in each generation back to 1850! When my son was about 12 he announced that he did not wish to be called Christopher any more - he was Chris !! his grandparents still call him Christopher but mostly he's Chris - answers to both ! When his son was born I received an Email asking for family names and I listed them all - had a couple of bad hours when I realised that I didn't really want a grandson called Kemuel !!! but they used Thomas as a middle name for him - again a very old family first name. His first name is scots but there is a welsh version and they are both pronounced the same but spelt differently.
Up to my generation on both sides the traditional family names were used ! My grandmother was Lizzie and I had a smile when I realised that my aunt who was always very genteel wasn't registered as Mary Elizabeth as she had always said but Mary Lizzie !
Nesta
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I have a friend who was christened Gillian. She says this was chosen by her elder brother. Apparently he already had a Jack (Jacqueline) so decided he would like a Jill to complete the set!!!
Busybod
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My step-daughter is named Dawn.......she was born at Dawn...nice and simple
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My step-daughter is named Dawn.......she was born at Dawn...nice and simple
If I had applied that logic, my daughters would have been called Middle-of-the-Night and Lunchtime. ;D ;D
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My real name is a Greek mouthful, commonly misspelt and mispronounced. I have never liked it. I also have no idea whatsoever why parents chose it (no precedent in the family and no-one's Greek either!) and they've never called me by the full version!
So for my daughter I wanted a name that was easy to spell and pronounce, and at the same time not too run of the mill yet not too esoteric. I would have like to call her Harriet (a family name that would have made my dad v happy ) but my partner was having none of that. So she's Hannah - I still like her name and she does too.
Strangely, virtually no-one in my entire family has ever been known by their given name but only one changed their name by deedpoll, when the man who would have been Norman changed to Tim!
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My step-daughter is named Dawn.......she was born at Dawn...nice and simple
If I had applied that logic, my daughters would have been called Middle-of-the-Night and Lunchtime. ;D ;D
Yes jen....I like that... would make it easier for generations to come to look up their ancestry with unique forenames!!
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It's funny, isn't it, that we call our offspring April, May and June but don't seem so keen on February or November?
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It's funny, isn't it, that we call our offspring April, May and June but don't seem so keen on February or November?
in uk they are springtime names.....new life etc with all the flowers springing up..hopefully!! unlike the dull winter months??
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I know of a lady named October and a couple of Autumns.
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I knew an October also and she had an appropriate surname to go with it [which I won't mention because she might still be alive].
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don't know where they got the Nesta - its the welsh version of Agnes
Nesta you've just solved a problem for me. ;D I have an Agnes who went by the name of Nesta in my tree, who I'd disregarded as I wasn't sure whether they were the same person.
So big thank yous ;D ;D ;D
Alison
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When my mum was having my younger sister, whether she was having twins was being questioned. My older sister thought it would be appropriate they be named Percy and Strawberry, after two pet calves. Thankfully, she was only one and common sense prevailed.
Alison ;D ;D ;D
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My pleasure Alison - was it a welsh family ? I say big thank yous every so often as I would have hated to have been called Agnes - by the way there was also a famous welsh princess called Nesta and Bob Marley was rally called Robert Nesta Marley.............the other choice for me was Elliw after my mother's aunt ..........I definitely prefer Nesta !
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No Nesta, no Welsh blood anywhere, but obviously they knew of the tradition.
Alison :D
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Well my parents managed to produce 2 boys and 2 girls and the plan was to give each of us one of our Grand parents name as a second name....... So Andrew, Margaret and Torres made it ... however when it came to Thelma my father put his foot down and I was given her nickname Paddy...... Kind of got used to it now but could have done without it at high school!
Gillian (Paddy)
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I wonder how many newly born over the next few months will be named Kate
or Catherine Elizabeth!!
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I don't like any of my names - I have three. I was named after a book my parents were reading when I was born and both my grandmothers. My name is one of those ones that was very common for a time and is now very uncommon so it 'dates' me rather. I wonder why all those others who share my name were also given it!!
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I wonder how many newly born over the next few months will be named Kate
or Catherine Elizabeth!!
When my first daughter Kate ( Katharine) started school, the almost retirement aged reception teacher had never taught a Kate before - there had been Katies, Kathys, Catherines, Kaths, Kathryns and any other variation on offer, but no Kates. Two years later, when my second daughter started in that class, there were three Kates starting with her!
We got in just in front of the Kate boom of the 1970s! ;D ;D
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I was named Mark as my mum liked Marc Bolan, don't send a drunk irish father to register your kids.
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I`m called Sarah. My Dad wanted Christine but Mum didn`t want a name that could be shortened. She wanted Anouska. Dad didn`t like it as it sounded too Russian. So he said what about Sarah instead. Mum thought it sounded too posh! What did i end up being called only Sarah Elizabeth Mary! Doesn`t that sound posh!! However i am named after my two great grandmothers which i like. I know that my father`s grandmother was very important in his life so to be named after her is an honour.
I`ve also carried on the family naming tradition, my first son is named after my husbands uncle, my second son has the surname of his great grandmother and my third son is named after his great grandad.
My sister also named her son James as we discovered it is a popular name in our family tree and she liked it.
I do wonder why some names are dated and others remain popular no matter what.
Regards
Sarah
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My middle name is Rose, because my Dad bought my Mum a dozen red roses when I was born. I like it because it was so romantic. In those days (1950s) fathers were not encouraged to be at the birth and my poor Dad had gone off to work whilst my Mum was in labour! I'm just pleased he didn't buy her tulips or daffodils!
I also know a lady who was named after her father's tank in the army! I won't mention her name in case anyone knows her - I've never heard of another person with that name (it is a nice name though!).
Sue
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When I was expecting my second child we found out it was going to be a little girl and had not planed for this so were stuck for names.
I was watching some late night cable tv show and discovered that the comet Hale Bopp would be visible at it's best over the UK on my due date.
The result was my daughter Hayley Ann who is now 14 and still in the family known as Bopp.
I have a large photograph of the comet passing over Stone Henge for her when she is older.
Needless to say she was late but we stuck with the name lol
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How interesting are all these names :D
In the 1950's in Australia the name Rayleen/Raylene
was very popular and the family wanted something a little different.
So when I was born I was named RAYLEN
My Dads brother (my god father) was named RAYmond
and my Dads name was LENard
Ray and Len = Raylen !
Did a similar thing when my daughter was born.
To keep both Grandmothers happy (if you know what I mean ;) )
her middle name is Maree, a combination of the Grannys names
Marie and Dee
Raylen
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I have something similar to Bodger's "S.J." names in that my maternal grandmother Edith Sophia chose to give all her daughters names starting with "E": Ena, Eva, Elsie, Edith (Edie). I haven't figured out whether she was acknowledging her step mother "Elizabeth" (her real mother Lucy died when she was young) or just thought it was a romantic notion to use the "E" in her own name.
There were plenty of males in my paternal grandparents family but only 3 granddaughters. Their oldest son wanted to name his daughter after his mother but his wife refused to saddle a "modern" child with the name Agnes but did agree to use the name Lilias in remembrance of her husband's sister who died aged 7 - this was also a family name carried down through generations. My mother also demurred at giving me the name Agnes and neither of my 2 brothers have our grandfathers names. She always told me she agreed to name me Rena because she liked it and it couldn't be shortened, but since I've researched the family I realise my father had managed to connect all of his children to his siblings by giving us names of his nephews and a niece who I didn't know existed.
I have found & contacted my older cousin Rena and all she knew was that her mother (my father's oldest sibling unknown to me until I was 16) liked the name. My grandparents came down to England to raise their younger children and left their 2 oldest teenage daughters in Scotland living with relatives. All became clear when I found the Scottish census which showed that my father's sisters had a playmate living a few doors away called Rina. Her mother was Italian and as I know there was a ship called Reina Del Mar (Queen of the Sea) - I'm wondering if the original friend Rena was conceived on a ship of that name when her father brought his new wife back to England :o
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Re the S. J. s, there was one alteration, Selana Jo, should have been Selina, but with the surname Bacon we defered and invented Selana, but everyone knows her has Jo /ey
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I have no idea why I was called Julie....I never use my name and am known as Jules....
I called my daughter Melody Grace...Melody sounded nice and Grace after my nan Edith Grace...
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I was born in Paris so my parents chose a name from the acceptable list of saint's names for my first name, as was expected of French families at the time. My second name was supposed to be Mary, at my mother's insistance, but my father registered me at the British Embassy with a middle name of Dorothy, the same as my mother, much to her annoyance (and mine for the first 20-odd years of my life). Then I found that Dorothy was a name that went back nine generations on my mother's maternal side, so I proudly gave it to my eldest daughter as a middle name too. My younger sister got the Mary instead.
Ermy
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I was supposed to be Jennifer, however when I was born one of the nurses (what is it with nurses ???) said to mum "she's a real little 'Black eyed Suzie!' -and I became Susan. I must say prefer Susan to Jennifer.
My two daughters both have names that run through the families but we didn't know this until I started on the family history 10 years ago, spooky! They also both have their respective grandmothers christian names as second names.
Oddly enough we never got round to choosing boys names, goodness knows what we'd have done if we'd had two boys - easy option of the grandpa's probably... Frederick and George.
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My two daughters both have names that run through the families but we didn't know this until I started on the family history 10 years ago, spooky! They also both have their respective grandmothers christian names as second names.
We've got the same spooky coincidence in our family. The grandfather of my mother and her sister was a Hannoverian b1854 and nobody knew anything about him except he was brought to the UK when he was very young by a relative of another boy. When I eventually found his baptism record my aunt couldn't believe what I was telling her - that without knowing it in 1946 she'd chosen the same name for her daughter as that of her grandfather's German mother b1824, which was "Christine".
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I worked with a lady named Rena, she was from Scotland, but her full name was Catherine. I figured your name Rena was just a short form of that :)
I like my name, it was chosen after 2 of my mum's best friends. One Karen who was killed in a car crash 2 weeks before her wedding day. My mum was supposed to go but was busy cleaning out my grandma's stove. The 2nd Karen, her son (8 years old at the time) died 3 days before I was born. He was playing outside and the ball rolled under the stairs, he tried to get it and got his head stuck between the stairs and died. To this day I have a huge fear of open stairs.
Karen
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Here is another drunk father story
A friend of mine is one of 15 children. When his youngest sister was about to arrive his Dad drove his Mum to the hospital and then went to the pub.
The delivery took longer than expected and he was well oiled by the time he got the call from the hospital.
The nurse showed him his new daughter and asked what he was calling her (in Ireland births are registered in the hospital). 'Kathleen, after my Mother' he said and went to see his wife. When he told her she was furious. Their eldest daughter was called Kathleen ;D
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the registrar used to come around the hospital here in England too, i don't know if it was daily or weekly i know it doesnt happen now!
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I was named Susan, a shortened version of my paternal grandmother's middle name chosen by my father. I remained Susan until my godmother handed me to the vicar nine months later when I was baptised and named me Susan Margaret. My father was said to be furious. My godmother was called Peggy so she named me after herself! I like the name Susan, but hate Margaret and only used the initial and then only because now I am married I have a very common surname. My birth certificate has a typed letter attached to it adding the middle name.