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Online MollyC

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Re: Taking a secod name?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 20 May 25 08:22 BST (UK) »
I have a lady born in the USA.  Some untraceable contributor had put her maiden name and place of birth on Findagrave but I have not yet found her birth nor marriage.

Then I collected a middle initial R.  It appears in one census and in her death record (1907).  I have added it to Findagrave, but I still do not know what it stands for.

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Re: Taking a secod name?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 20 May 25 09:26 BST (UK) »
I have always been known by my second name.  One exception that I remember was my first manager when I started work.  Someone kindly pointed out his error - I would have never dared to say anything!

Like Gillg, I warned the hospital when I went in for surgery some years ago to use my second name.  These days I have so many appointments, that I am getting quite used to being called by my first name by those who do not know me.

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Re: Taking a secod name?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 20 May 25 11:54 BST (UK) »
Some people take as a middle name, the name of their Wife's or Husband's family at Marriage.

Some people reverse forenames' around and put the one they most like first, or drop a first name altogether.

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Re: Taking a secod name?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 20 May 25 13:55 BST (UK) »
I have an ancestor Thomas Roberts whose full name was Thomas John Roberts, and the middle name only appeared on his baptism in 1813 and his burial in 1889.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Taking a secod name?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 20 May 25 16:32 BST (UK) »
Yes, our ancestors can be quite a nuisance to confirm their identity too!!

I was back to a John Hood & Sarah Richardson, 1846 marriage, back in June 1999

The Registrar issue dates of the two snippets of my Copy Certificates prove it ...
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=756955.msg7655569#msg7655569

Then a further generation George Hood & Sarah Russell was confirmed, married in 1815.

Even HSBC Archives Canary Wharf have inherited a banking document from a predecessor Bank, saying my ancestor could borrow any amount of dosh £££ ;D from the Branch, without further reference up the banking chain.

So he was obviously highly trusted by the bank, but I can't trust him to have left me a solid clue  ::)

Mark
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