Middle Names

[FloppyDavis]

This on the lighter side of searching my family tree. I notice the name Benjamin Adair Davidson popping up. The first mention of the middle name Adair appears in 1867. I thought it might be a mothers maiden name. But the name keeps appearing generation after generation. I think there is more of a meaning. My grandfather was a Benjamin Adair and so was my uncle and I also notice, I think distant relatives with Benjamin Adair in Ireland
So if there is anyone that has an idea, please let me know.

[Lendevon]

Middle names can be very stange things. Sometimes simply by tracking back you can find a marriage where it came from. Other times they go on for a hundred years with no indication of their origin. For many years my own ancestors were fond of "Liberty", which first appeared in the family just after the French Revolution. A declaration of approval. Always a radical lot my ancestors.
At one time I worked with someone whose middle name was the name of the warship his father had drowned on!