Scott & Doake Families 1850s/1960s

[soapy1]

Hi not sure if someone can give me an answer - my family, Beresfords had been living in Dromore , Co Down and later in Kinallen - Some came over to Scotland 1860s to Springburn, Glasgow and settling in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. I know about the traditional naming conventions for children, and this family belonging to John Beresford had quite a few. They had 3 eldest boys then 2 daughters and then a son . The eldest daughter was born in 1861 called Eliza Ann Scott Doake Beresford . I don't know anything at all about the parents - John Beresford and Dorothy Beck , and that John was a soldier according to his children's Scorttish death certificates. Does anyone know anything about those families Scott or Doake and would they have been related to the Beck family ? Incidentally I've been searching for birth or death details for both parents but find nothing yet .

[aghadowey]

Probably named after this woman-
The Will of Eliza Anne Scott Doake late of Bangor County Down Spinster who died 23 November 1886 at same place was proved at Belfast by Isabella Mills Gillmer and Mary Eliza Gillmer both of Bangor Spinsters the Executrixes. Effects £492 14s. 6d.
https://apps.proni.gov.uk/WillsCalendar_IE/WillsSearch.aspx

[soapy1]

Would it be normal to call a child and a first daughter after someone totally unconnected ?I thought an eldest daughter is usually after the maternal grandmother - still trying to find family connections but it's not easy - thanks for that info !

[aghadowey]

Not every family followed any sort of naming convention in Ireland (many of mine didn't) and it wasn't uncommon to name a child after a better-off (and often childless relative) minister, schoolteacher, landlord/landlady, doctor or member of the gentry. Sometimes this was done in hope of a christening gift or legacy later in life but other times just because the parents held that person in high regard.

[soapy1]

Thanks for that aghadowey- I wondered if families would do that because I saw from the Griffiths lists that Eliza Doake seemed to own a lot of property and indeed I think they lived in one - was looking though for a connection to find out more info on the family- I found the Becks but nothing really about Dorothy

[aghadowey]

You can check PRONI's Valuation Revision Books (free, online) to see occupants of a property and landlord (cover from printed version of Griffith's until c1930).