Why was a given only 1 christian name

[Guy Etchells]

Her father was a Mariner, maybe they thought they should continue the sea theme ........ 

Um ... correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not much of an angler, but isn't a trout a fresh water fish??

Some trout are freshwater trout, Brown Trout migrate like salmon between fresh and sea water (though not so far).

There are also sea trout often known by other names such as, finnock, herling, peel, sewin, whitling, white trout.
Cheers
Guy

[LizzieL]

Slightly off the point, but still talking about names, a school friend had 3 siblings.  Her father was rather forgetful, so in order to remember the order in which his children were born he gave them first names of differing lengths - the first had one syllable, the second two, and so on, for example Bill, Derek, Helena and Victoria (not their real names).

Many years ago on the run up to an election, the election literature (including biography of candidates) came through the letterbox. One candidate had a forename beginning with A, his wife's name began with B, he had four children with names beginning with C, D, E and F. I particularly remember because my brother's and my names were the same as two of his children.

[Llwyd]

My great grandfather was John, his father was David and John married my great grandmother whose surname was Thomas. Their first born bore the Christian names of John David Thomas.

I have three names and sometimes use them all. My middle name is such that it could be a surname and it leads to some people wanting to make me a hyphenated person.

I would take issue with the statement from Guy that some brown trout (salmo trutta) migrate. I say they don't.

Sewin are brown trout (salmo trutta) which, millennia ago, chose to migrate. Others may argue they are a sea dwelling creature which chose to breed in fresh water. I leave that to the scientists.

There are trout which are known a slob trout. These are brown trout (salmo trutta) which live in brackish estuary water but which, I believe, move upstream into fresh water to breed. They will then move back to brackish water. Not really migration, more like moving house than a full blown emigration to a new country.

Within fresh water dwelling brown trout(salmo trutta) some are river dwellers whilst others are lake dwellers.

All in all a very successful species which we must treasure and preserve at all costs.

[Guy Etchells]

You are welcome to take issue with me but you would also have to take issue with others such as the BBC
"Sea trout are also the same species as the brown trout, but sea trout are migratory, heading out to sea for most of their life and returning to rivers to spawn. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Brown_trout

The Animal Diversity Web

If Salmo trutta has access to the sea, it will undergo smoltification, which is taking on a silvery color while migrating to the ocean to reach maturity. The silvery color is acquired while brown trout transition from freshwater to saltwater, if anadromous. Adulthood may be reached in either saltwater or freshwater. Anadromous trout will reach maturity at sea while freshwater stream residents will achieve sexual maturity between 1 to 10 years.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Salmo_trutta/

Ices Journal of Marine Science

Anadromous populations of brown trout (henceforth referred to as sea trout) are subject to infection in the marine stage of their life cycle by the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837)), an external parasitic copepod
http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/5/1139.full

NCBI

The aim of the paper was to study sea migration, growth and survival of brown trout Salmo trutta of the River Imsa, 1976-2005.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735583

Cheers
Guy

[Roobarb]

Oh for heaven's sake you two, all this because of my throwaway comment  "Her father was a Mariner, maybe they thought they should continue the sea theme ........  "

It was meant to be a JOKE!!

Any chance we could get back to the topic now?