Double Bacon with that? Doubled-up second and surnames.

[MiniHistory]

I have a Jane B. Bacon b. 1859/60 in Brentwood, Essex. On both her birth reg. and marriage reg, the "B" turns out to be -- Bacon! So she's Jane Bacon Bacon. Anyone else come across this? I understand people called Phillip Phillips, or similar, but this seems bizarre.

[rosie99]

It is probably so that when she marries her fathers surname is still continued 

[chris_49]

Victorian author Edwin Abbott ("Flatland")  was born Edwin Abbott Abbott so carrying on family name doesn't apply - it's because his parents were first cousins. Not as such on freebmd but found on the GRO only by using that volume and page no - Edwin Abbott Abbott MMN Abbott registered 1839 March quarter Marylebone - he was born late Dec 1838. His father was plain Edwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott


 

[louisa maud]

Jane Bacon Bacon was registered March 1860 qtr Billericay registration district
thought perhaps her mother's maiden name might have been bacon but it isn't,
Mother's maiden name Salmon

Louisa Maud

[ThrelfallYorky]

Interesting menu there, louisa maud!
I've come upon the doubling of surnames only a couple of times - well, one had an "s" on the end of one copy (as in Rogers Roger). Never thought why. Simply assumed the surname had been put in twice. Shall look again at those, now.

[MiniHistory]

The menu gets even funnier when one of her possible spouses (I haven't yet found out which bloke is the correct one) has the surname Butcher, and he seems to have come from West Ham. Also, the Bacon/Salmon combination lived at Artichoke Common. 

[MiniHistory]

It is probably so that when she marries her fathers surname is still continued 

Interesting thought. However, Jane had an elder brother who survived to become my husband's direct ancestor so I'm guessing that wasn't the reason in this case.

[rosie99]

It is probably so that when she marries her fathers surname is still continued 

Interesting thought. However, Jane had an elder brother who survived to become my husband's direct ancestor so I'm guessing that wasn't the reason in this case.

I meant in the daughters line 

[louisa maud]

All this chat about Bacon reminds me that years ago in the Essex record office I found a marriage where the bride was Emily Bacon - Cuts, stupidly I never wrote the details down so I have no proof, but I kid ye not, it is true

Louisa Maud