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My Grandmother and her siblings were all named as follows in Scotland 1888 to 1905.
2nd child - Daughter - not named after a family member (my grandmother)
7th child - Son - not named after a family member
8th child - Son - not named after a family member
10th child - Son - not named after a family member
I have no idea who some of them were named for but perhaps as suggested a food family friend.
Dorrie
An old aunt born at the turn of the century in England told me that sickly babies who weren't expected to live long would not be given family names (something about bad luck). I subsequently discovered her grandparents ( my gt.grandparents) gave their second son non family names of Stanley Percival who only lived three weeks.
On the other hand back in the 1700s My father's Scottish ancestor John named three of his sons John and as there were several cousins named John I never discovered if any of "my" John's Johns died or whether all three survived. Furthermore, which John married Agnes who was widowed before the 1841 census when she was 40. Was it one of the three sons named John or did the old man take a younger wife and died of old age? I'll never know as there don't seem to be any surviving burial records
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