{"id":2452,"date":"2020-10-04T03:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2020-10-04T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T08:54:09","slug":"naming-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/naming-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMING PATTERNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Naming Patterns in the 1800’s<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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19th Century Naming Patterns:<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

First son: <\/b>named for his paternal grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

Second son: n<\/b>amed for his maternal grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

Third son: <\/b>named after father or father’s paternal grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

Fourth son: <\/b>named after father’s oldest brother or mother’s paternal grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

Fifth son: <\/b>named after mother’s eldest brother or father’s material grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

Fifth son: <\/b>named after mother’s eldest brother or father’s maternal grandfather.<\/b><\/p>\n

First dau: <\/b>named for maternal grandmother.<\/b><\/p>\n

Second dau: <\/b>named for her paternal grandmother.<\/b><\/p>\n

Third dau: <\/b>named after mother or for mother’s maternal grandmother.<\/b><\/p>\n

Fourth dau: <\/b>named after mother’s oldest sister or for father’s paternal grandmother.<\/b><\/p>\n

Fifth dau:<\/b> named after father’s eldest sister or for mother’s paternal grandmother.<\/b><\/p>\n

Sixth dau: <\/b>named after mother’s second oldest sister or for father’s paternal grandmother.<\/p>\n

With people being what they are, there were all sorts of variations, some covered by rules and some by family decision.\u00a0 It was customary to name the next daughter\/son born within a second marriage for the deceased husband\/wife.\u00a0 If a father died before his child was born, the child was often named for him.\u00a0 If a mother died in childbirth, that child, if a girl, was usually named for the mother.\u00a0 Another child was commonly named for a child who had died within the family.<\/b><\/p>\n

DUTCH NAMING PATTERNS:<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

The custom was that the lst son be named for paternal grandfather; 2nd son named for his maternal grandfather; lst daughter for her maternal grandmother; 2nd daughter for her paternal grandmother.\u00a0 If 4 children were born then all 4 grandparents are known.<\/p>\n


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Naming Patterns in the 1800’s \u00a0 19th Century Naming Patterns: First son: named for his paternal grandfather. Second son: named for his maternal grandfather. Third son: named after father or father’s paternal grandfather. Fourth son: named after father’s oldest brother or mother’s paternal grandfather. Fifth son: named after mother’s eldest brother or father’s material grandfather. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 4, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 4, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 4, 2020 3:49 am","modified":"Updated on October 4, 2020 3:54 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}