Names in The Family

[zetlander]

6th Earl Fitzwilliam (Wentworth Woodhouse - Rotherham) had 8 surviving sons all with the first name  William.

[Roobarb]

I have an ancestor whose middle name was Trout! I've never managed to track down why ...... her father was a sailor though 

As for my own first name, my 3 x great grandmother had the same name but I'll never know whether that was relevant. Other than that it dates back to the bible. 

[Andrew Tarr]

The strangest forename used that I have found is a person by the name of:- Quickfall Gladwin.

That is probably also a relative's surname, as I know someone with it (from Lancashire).  It may originally be Manx, like other Q surnames?

[guest189040]

The strangest forename used that I have found is a person by the name of:- Quickfall Gladwin.

That is probably also a relative's surname, as I know someone with it (from Lancashire).  It may originally be Manx, like other Q surnames?

Indeed it was, his mother was Mary Quickfall and they came from Lincolnshire.

[BenRalph]

I have a bunch of French (a surname not the country) relatives who liked using surnames as fore names. Richmond, Troughton, Blakey.

In my family I have a line that used Frederetta for 5 or 6 children but I cant find at all where it came from. I'd love to know.

[guest189040]

When we started the Family Tree building I remembered my Father (forenames William James Thomas) saying that he was named after his Uncles.

He had Uncles James and two William’s but I still cannot find an Uncle of his called Thomas.

[Chilternbirder]

When we started the Family Tree building I remembered my Father (forenames William James Thomas) saying that he was named after his Uncles.

He had Uncles James and two William’s but I still cannot find an Uncle of his called Thomas.

"Uncle" may have been a paren't cousin or a great uncle. Three of my cousins once removed call me "uncle" and my mother always referred to two of her father's cousins as aunts. (Took me ages to get the relationship untangled)

[Jebber]

When we started the Family Tree building I remembered my Father (forenames William James Thomas) saying that he was named after his Uncles.

He had Uncles James and two William’s but I still cannot find an Uncle of his called Thomas.

"Uncle" may have been a paren't cousin or a great uncle. Three of my cousins once removed call me "uncle" and my mother always referred to two of her father's cousins as aunts. (Took me ages to get the relationship untangled)

It didn't necessarily have to a relation, before today's familiarity of children addressing adults by their first name, it was common practice for children to call family friends and neighbours Uncle an Aunty.

I am still called Aunty by a Friend's daughters now in their sixties.  A friend of my mother, who I always called Aunty, named her daughter after me, I could quite quite a few other similar examples.

[brigidmac]

I came across great name

Cadwallader JONES

 he was in a Welsh  household of my JONES family but down as a servant .

Any ideas of origins ..?

I could do with a name like that to follow after a day spent on Mary Martha Thomas John and Davids .