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Started by Mickey Lane x3067
Tue, 31 Dec 1985 20:50
middle names
Author: Mickey Lane x3067
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1985 20:50
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1985 20:50
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Does anyone know when the practice of giving people middle names
started? Old records (1700s) rarely show them. Is it that people did
not record middle names or is it that they did not have them?
Mickey Lane
Re: middle names
Author: Doug Faunt
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1986 17:55
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1986 17:55
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> Does anyone know when the practice of giving people middle names
> started? Old records (1700s) rarely show them. Is it that people did
> not record middle names or is it that they did not have them?
>
> Mickey Lane
I just looked at the DAR applications for my mother and grandmother,
which were sitting on top of the terminal here, and notice that
one ancestor, John Skottowe Bellinger, was born in 1777,
another, James Fisher Edwards, was born in 1787, and his wife,
Mary Edwards Gadsden (yes, her middle name and married last name
were both Edwards) was born in 1791. This was all in South Carolina,
in and around Charleston. None of the earlier people had them.
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