Every child with the same middle name?

[tarnya]

Hi There
Just to Say my Great Grandmothers maiden name was Edden.One of Her Sons had Edden as a first
name and two of the others had it as a second name .My dad also had Edden as a second name .

Tarnya

[KathMc]

I have an aunt who gave her three daughters the same middle name, Lee, after my grandfather Leo. Then her youngest daughter had children. Her three daughters all have Lee as a middle name and her son's is Leo. I call it overkill, but what can you do?

Kath

[sueky71]

My two daughters both have the middle name Louise.
When I had my eldest daughter I let my mum choose her middle name.
Then 12 years later when I had my second daughter I gave her the same middle name so that they would have a 'bond' (they have different surnames)
My eldest thinks its quite cool and has promised to pass it on to her daughter(s)
I think I've unintentionally started a family tradition! 

[tarnya]

Well i have 6 sisters and 1 brother thank goodness none inherited Edden as a middle name .
My dad said on many occasions that his only christian name was George and the Edden -Smith his Surname but Edden was dropped and used as a middle name .

As my lot were all Farm Labourers and not Squires or Landowners as one of my Grandsons says

I DON'T THINK SO    LOL.

[Eyesee]

Have one family in my lot where all the daughters had the second name Ann, which was their mothers first name, five girls I think. There were two sons who had William as a second name, which was their fathers first name. The younger son's first name was Shaftesbury, not sure where that came from.

The use of a surname as a second name is prevalent in most of my lines. It seems to have been for a number of reasons. Firstly to carry the name on, usually the mothers maiden name. The second one was so the grandmother would leave some money, as someone said earlier.

My grandmother was Evangeline Faulconer Clarke
Her mother was Miriam Mannington Faulconer
Her mother was Mary Waite Mannington
Her grandmother was Mary Waite.

Miriam Mannington Faulconers grandfather was Stephen Sawyer Faulconer, whose great grandfather was Stephen Sawyer.

Ian C

[scotchmist]

Hi everyone,
I'm new here so I hope you don't mind me butting in but I find this a very interesting thread.
I gave my first son the middle name Geoffrey after his dad, in case I only had one son.
When the second son was born he too got the same middle name in case in later years he felt that his older brother was the favourite of his father and so got his name.
By the time I had my third son, well what else could I do ? I couldn't make favorites, so he also got his dad's name as a middle name 
  I am not having any more kids, but I was recently informed that there has not been a girl born on my husband's side of the family for over 100 years.
  I wish I had been told sooner 

[meles]

Good name, is Geoffrey! Can't have too many

meles

[wildtech]

The using of the mother's maiden name as a middle name has happened on numerous branches of my family tree.  Two families in the localities the Wilds and Weeklys intermarried  quite a few times and the resulting families all had a tendency to use this convention so there are a number of Weekly Wilds on the tree but it is not a hyphenated surname.  Another branch I recently  discovered used the middle name Andrews both down and across several generations.  It seemed to be quite a common occurrence in the 1800's

[janglaschu]

It was (and still is) very common in Scotland to have the mother's maiden name as a middle name. My gt-grandmother's maiden name was Thomson, and at least three of her sons had Thomson as a middle name. My grandmother, however, was given the maiden names of her grandmother and great-grandmother as middle names.

I'm afraid I didn't follow in the tradition, but was instead given my aunt's first name as my middle name.