Every child with the same middle name?

[Ruth_T]

All my cousins have the same middle name, it is my great-granmothers surname, I really like the idea of this, and if I had known about it sooner I would have used the name for my children, it keeps the family name ticking over.

Marg

[lesleyhannah]

I think it's probably the mother's maiden name - this happened in my husband's family for a few generations, and eventually the two names became hyphenated, and therefore passed down the generations.

[flocklet]

Goodness, this is very interesting to see everybody's experiences!!
Keep them comin!! Gives food for thought indeed!

[sallysmum]

Gt grandfather had the middle name Sparke, his mother's maiden name.  I believe the knowledge of this got lost and several children and grandchildren inherited this as a middle name.  Folklore then evolved that it would bring wealth to the child with this middle name as the Pearson's were of wealthy stock!  This part of the folklore has yet to be proven!

Sallysmum

Re carrying on the name Sparke.  Second cousin Arthur and his wife Lucy weren't blessed with children so they decided to carry on family tradition and name their dog Sparke.  It didn't go down too well with the Pearsons........

[spark]

I am a 5th generation with Vellacott as a middle name - post original marriage.  I have to say that some of my siblings have and some have not carried the tradition on.  Me, I carried it on with my kids!!

Spark

[forthefamily]

I have one individual on my tree whose second name turned out to be the maiden name of her maternal grandmother. Very helpful.....specially since her father was a Smith and her mother an Owens  I wish I had more like that......   

mab

[Paul Caswell]

Isaac Stockley b1799 m Jane Roe
Children:
Mary Williams Stockley b1822
Jane Williams Stockley b1823
Margaret Williams Stockley b1825
Sarah Williams Stockley b1827

Joh Stockley b1795 m Jane Richards
Children:
William Richards Stockley b1827
James Richards Stockley b1829
Caroline Richards Stockley b1831
Mary Jane Richards Stockley b1833

Am wondering where the above information came from- did you see it in the original source or a transcript, IGI, etc.? as it looks almost like mother's name has been inserted as a middle name.

Forgive me, my notifications stopped for a while.

These all came from Baptism records on the Dorset OPC (Williams' from Corfe Castle, Richards' from Kingston) . All bishops transcripts I believe so moderately reliable.

Paul

[IgorStrav]

My OH's father, Arthur, had the middle name MARSDEN.

Neither he nor his wife had any idea why that was, and although he'd asked the family, he got a reply that indicated he shouldn't have asked (even about his own name )

When I did the research back through the family, I found that Arthur's own father had been born illegitimate, and that the Marsden came from the man his mother subsequently married, and who brought him up - although he married under his mother's surname and the family is still called that name.

Whilst I can see that the family may have wanted to keep the illegitimacy quiet, what surprises me is that Arthur never knew his grandparents' surname was MARSDEN and not his own surname.

Sadly found this out after Arthur had died.  Mind you, not sure he would have appreciated it.................

[geniecolgan]

I've got two brothers with the same middle name but I've never found out how they came by it  It's hiiden in the mists of old Ireland I think 

Charles Templeton Colgan b.1876
Wm. John Templeton Colgan b.1877

Genie