I reccommend the practice of giving children the maiden name of their mother

[toni*]

i have to agree it would make things a lot simpler.

i do have Annie Holman a cousin twice removed from my gt gt grandfather who married Edward Smith and she luckily gave her children the middle name of Holman so they are Holman Smiths which helped find them amongst all the other Smiths but this hasn't continued in our tree.

[Redroger]

I know of several people named Michael Collins after the Irish patriot. However my main purpose of this post is to point out a situation which arises in Lincolnshire where there is a village called Mavis Enderby; there is at least one family who give their children this name. Somewhat embarrassing for the males I think?