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My grandmother gave her five daughters (including my mother) the same first name: Maria  . Perhaps in the hope they would all come when she called them???
It was rather confusing, so they used to call each other by their second name.

In Limburg, a province in Belgium, a lot of children had the same second name: Ghislain. It was believed that this would protect the child against illnesses.

Hi
I'm not Dutch but Flemish. "erkenning "  normally means that the father accepts the child to be his and therefore the child gets the father's name, so he or she is ligitimate, even when the couple is not married.

You're welcome. 

The two names appear in Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands, as well, but not in the 16th century. Their website is also in English:
http://www.bhic.nl/index.php?id=11454

An idea to broaden your familytree? 

We are descandants in the eight generation from an Irish called John Burke.

Don't laugh, this is serious
We found Joannes (Flemish for John or Shawn) Burke, mentioned as spouse of the late Maria Vanhouteghem, died widowed in 1729 in Ostend, Belgium. The only marriage we find for her is the one in 1711 at  Anzegem, Belgium to Joannes Vandenbulcke. We traced our roots back to Edmond (Edmund) Burke (also spelled Burcke), married Leffinge in 1733 to Phillipina Marissael.
Baptism nor funeral found for John or Edmund. The tale in the family is that they were wild geese from Ireland, probably Mayo or Galway.
We only have those two names and the family legend to trace them back to Ireland.
As Flanders had different rulers during that time, we are also looking for data in France(Nord-Pas de Calais) and the Netherlands. A birth certificate of one of the two could give additional information from where they or their parents originated.


Keep my fingers crossed! 

Sint-Pieters-Op-Den-Dijk
birth certificate
date 19-10-1897

name of baby   Herbert Macpherson Walker
father Thomas Nicholls Walker
mother   Maud Helen Mary Hayes