>>I think it’s a cool thing to do amongst the posh people in the east lol.
Not just posh. It was the norm in early America. Mother’s surname name becomes the middle name. Then, in the next generation, middle name moves into first name position. So you end up with people like Livingston Livingston. My middle name is Lansing, a Dutch NY surname. I could trace my father’s PA roots because his middle name was his mother’s surname and his first name was his grandmother’s surname, so the practice continued.
“Not just posh. It was the norm in early America. “
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Thank you, Mairdie! My paternal grandmother’s family are descendants of some Mayflower guy (hahaha not a Mayflower Madame). I’ll have to go back and look at names. My maternal grandmother, they came from Scotland, Britain. Some kind soul traced the lineage way way back and I always wondered how they ended up in Novia Scotia. Yeah... when the American Revolution broke out, they hightailed it out of America. Peaceniks? Traitors? Loyalists?
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Not just posh. It was the norm in early America. Mother’s surname name becomes the middle name. Then, in the next generation, middle name moves into first name position. So you end up with people like Livingston Livingston. My middle name is Lansing, a Dutch NY surname. I could trace my father’s PA roots because his middle name was his mother’s surname and his first name was his grandmother’s surname, so the practice continued.
Good to see you mairdie. I was going to say it is very common in Morman families also probably because of their genealogy practices. I’m not one but I do know that many still name children this way.