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pjbuk007
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A bit off the original point, but my great uncle, Newark Burton, was a lad from NRY who went to the USA. He started off as a clerk, but became a lawyer and was given the title "Judge" when he died.
He was christened Newark Burton but after a few years in the USA he started using his Mother's maiden name as a middle name. Pressumably because he was tapping into a historic American family? He is known as N L Burton or Newark Lincoln Burton for the latter part of his life.
There is a family tradition that my father's family were related to Abraham Lincoln by marriage. I cannot substantiate this and suspect it was just a useful myth.
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BENNET(T); NRY- Brotton, CON BURTON; NRY- Saltburn, Guisborough, Marske, Stokesley Judge Newark Lincoln BURTON , USA DALES; NRY- Brotton, LIN - Orby DAVIES GEORGE: GLA - Oystermouth & Penarth, CON LINCOLN. Middlesbrough, NRY, Durham PERRETT Gloucestershire QUESTED London. Assisting with One-name Study. TRASK; GLA - Cardiff, Barry etc, SOM - South Petherton WESTED Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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saar3
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I have seen this happen as a way of indentifying the real father where there has been illegitimacy somewhere down the line.
I had on family where there was a man living with his 'housekeeper' and loads of housekeeper's children all with his surname as their middle name. After he died they actually used his surname for census entries. But for BMD registration they went back to using their mother's name with their father's name as middle name.
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lesleyhannah
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I think it's probably the mother's maiden name - this happened in my husband's family for a few generations, and eventually the two names became hyphenated, and therefore passed down the generations.
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Paul Caswell
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Isaac Stockley b1799 m Jane Roe
Children:
Mary Williams Stockley b1822
Jane Williams Stockley b1823
Margaret Williams Stockley b1825
Sarah Williams Stockley b1827
Joh Stockley b1795 m Jane Richards
Children:
William Richards Stockley b1827
James Richards Stockley b1829
Caroline Richards Stockley b1831
Mary Jane Richards Stockley b1833
Am wondering where the above information came from- did you see it in the original source or a transcript, IGI, etc.? as it looks almost like mother's name has been inserted as a middle name.
Forgive me, my notifications stopped for a while.
These all came from Baptism records on the Dorset OPC (Williams' from Corfe Castle, Richards' from Kingston) . All bishops transcripts I believe so moderately reliable.
Paul
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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury) Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Selattyn) Turner - Dorset(Parkstone) Speight - Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal) Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle) Amey - Suffolk(Haverill) Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham) Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay) Census information is Crown Copyright
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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My OH's father, Arthur, had the middle name MARSDEN.
Neither he nor his wife had any idea why that was, and although he'd asked the family, he got a reply that indicated he shouldn't have asked (even about his own name  )
When I did the research back through the family, I found that Arthur's own father had been born illegitimate, and that the Marsden came from the man his mother subsequently married, and who brought him up - although he married under his mother's surname and the family is still called that name.
Whilst I can see that the family may have wanted to keep the illegitimacy quiet, what surprises me is that Arthur never knew his grandparents' surname was MARSDEN and not his own surname.
Sadly found this out after Arthur had died. Mind you, not sure he would have appreciated it................. 
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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geniecolgan
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I've got two brothers with the same middle name but I've never found out how they came by it  It's hiiden in the mists of old Ireland I think
Charles Templeton Colgan b.1876
Wm. John Templeton Colgan b.1877
Genie 
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Colgan, Scott, Templeton in Northern Antrim
Colgan in Saskatchewan, Canada
Durrant in Herts & Middlesex
Ford,Smith in Hammersmith, Fulham, Brentford
Whiting in Berkshire
Weller in Sussex and London
Walker in the 24th of Foot, (Canada, Ireland, India and South Africa) and London
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tarnya
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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
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KathMc
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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
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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA
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sueky71
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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! 
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Census information, Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukKennaway, Britton, Cruickshank, Jamieson, Wood, Braidwood, Swan, Inglis (Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Greenock, Glasgow, Lanarks) Cotton, Wood, Beckwith, Edwards, Rutland, Burgess, Davies (Liverpool, Lancashire, Cheshire, Bucks, Staffs) |
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