Use of middle name as main name?

[[Ray]]

My grandson Rory is known as "Jabber", Jebber 

Who is Marion Micheal/Mitchell/Robert/Duke Morrison?
"Get on your horse and drink your milk"

 

[djct59]

James Harold Wilson was followed as Prime Minister by Leonard James Callaghan.

Three decades later James Gordon Brown followed the tradition

[[Ray]]

djct59

Like that!

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[Marmalady]

Not to mention George Gideon Oliver Osborne, who was born Gideon Oliver Osborne 23 May 1971

[Philezra]

I just didn't appreciate the proliferation of examples.

Every time I find out full names of people, I will try both combinations from now on when seeking to find information them!

[nanny jan]

A distant ancestor was registered and baptised as Rachel Maria.......then spent the rest of her life switching them at regular intervals.

I only knew of my godfather as Frank;  trying to find him to add to my tree (he was also my gt.uncle) proved tricky as he was officially Peter Frank!

[groom]

I alway thought my grandmother's name was Gertrude and only found out at her funeral that she was actually Alice Gertrude. I suspect that she was called by her middle name as a child as her mother was also Alice, maybe this is why a lot of people tended to use their middle names.

[antiquesam]

I decided that I didn't like any of my three given names and chose one of my own. Every living person knows me by that name and I use my given names only on official documents. A nightmare for anyone doing any research in the future.

[a-l]

I spent a long time researching a relative named Dick. No Richards or Dicks with his surname , eventually found him accidentally , his real name was Albert.