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All the families that I'm following used the traditional naming pattern of first son named after paternal g/father, etc., etc.
However, I do have a line that at first glance didn't use that pattern until I realised the middle given name was the child's name and the first given name was donated by a godparent who was often a local person of substance (e.g. who wasn't a labourer or labourer's wife) and who hopefully would be useful to the child's future prospects.
My gt. uncle Tom born in Norfolk carried the full name of his father's employer "Robert Blake" as his middle names.
My Lanarkshire born grandfather Andrew carried the three full name of a local bigwig; "Andrew Stevenson Dalglish" as middle names. One of his brothers was given the three full names of his maternal uncle, Allan Cameron M'Kenzie, a blacksmith, who had no son to carry on his name.
Also in my tree is one Aberdeen couple with numerous children who ran out of family names and I can spot that one son carried the name of a ships captain that lived next door to the wife when she was a child and it seems the wife had a large say in the names of her several daughters many of whom carried the full given & maiden surnames of her childhood girl friends.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke