thanks. to you both.
I appreciate what you're saying, but im talking about working class Nottingham, where I've never come across anyone with the first or second name Lyon, who. wasn't. jewish...I know jews didn't name their children after living friends or relatives, so, if a non jewish family had named the baby after a. jewish friend, the friend wouldn't. have been very pleased.
at the time there was a fair amount of jewish immigration into Nottingham, I wonder if giving your child this name. would. have. provoked the same reaction as if you'd given it an Indian name in the 1950s.
I guess what I'm really asking is whether this was. a name like Samuel or Joseph, used by both communities or. would it have been seen as for4eign
