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Help[Opinions] Re: Posh British family names?
in reply to a message by erb816
Wife's maiden name might well be the first born son's middle name,
There were naming traditions in lowland (but also Gaelic) Scotland.
First son - father's father;
Second Son - mother's father (tho it may be different in Gaeltacht)
Third son - father's brother or uncle;
First daughter - mother's mother
Second daughter - father's mother
Third daughter - mother's sister or aunt.
So in any generation you may have a slew of cousins with the same first name and even last name,
Or through the generations a slew of people with the same first name and different last names.
John Scott Chalmers would have been born to a man whose father was John and whose wife's maiden name was Scott (my great, great grandfather). But infant mortality can skew patterns. My great, great, great grandmother, born 1826, was Barbara Ewing Maxell; she had an older sister named Mary (so we can presume Barbara's mother was Mary as proven by Barbara's death certificate in 1902) and that Ewing was likely her grandmother's maiden name (maternal or paternal) as her mother's name was MacCorquadale, - however before 1855 births did not have to be registered so I cannot find either Barbara Ewing (with certainty and the Barbara and Ewing might not go together) or Mary MacCorquadale, but I can find that she likely came from Lissmore in Argyll).
There were naming traditions in lowland (but also Gaelic) Scotland.
First son - father's father;
Second Son - mother's father (tho it may be different in Gaeltacht)
Third son - father's brother or uncle;
First daughter - mother's mother
Second daughter - father's mother
Third daughter - mother's sister or aunt.
So in any generation you may have a slew of cousins with the same first name and even last name,
Or through the generations a slew of people with the same first name and different last names.
John Scott Chalmers would have been born to a man whose father was John and whose wife's maiden name was Scott (my great, great grandfather). But infant mortality can skew patterns. My great, great, great grandmother, born 1826, was Barbara Ewing Maxell; she had an older sister named Mary (so we can presume Barbara's mother was Mary as proven by Barbara's death certificate in 1902) and that Ewing was likely her grandmother's maiden name (maternal or paternal) as her mother's name was MacCorquadale, - however before 1855 births did not have to be registered so I cannot find either Barbara Ewing (with certainty and the Barbara and Ewing might not go together) or Mary MacCorquadale, but I can find that she likely came from Lissmore in Argyll).
