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Middle name?
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Jun 2007 16:33 |
Kaz I have a relative like that too. Registered Silvey....baptised Jane Sylvia....married as Silva Jane....and died as Jane. Gwyn |
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Kaz in a Tizz | Report | 22 Jun 2007 14:02 |
Hi Richard I agree with Gwyneth that she could have just stopped using it. I always thought people would have full name on official documents until found my grt grandmother used none of her first two names (Elizabeth Belindah) when she married but her pet name Lillie? Also my grandmother changed her name over the years from Lydia (on birth cert) to Lillian. Kaz :o) |
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Richard | Report | 22 Jun 2007 11:18 |
Hi There, Thanks very much Jeanette and Gwyneth for answering my query. Regards Richard |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 21 Jun 2007 12:03 |
Although given a middle name perhaps she had no cause to use it....( or maybe disliked it) so thought of herself as Elizabeth. When she came to marry, she just used the name that she was known by. There doesn't seem to have been a hard and fast rule about this....although I agree, one might expect the full name on official records. One man on my tree invented a middle name for himself, when he married for a 3rd time. Previous 2 marriages were in his registered name, - just given name and surname. ....Now why do that? Gwyn |
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Jeanette | Report | 21 Jun 2007 12:00 |
perhaps she didn't know her middle name and who ever was informant perhaps didnt know either. Was middle name on any of her childrens birth certs? Jeanette |
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Richard | Report | 21 Jun 2007 11:50 |
Hi There, My great grandmother was called Elizabeth Jane Brookes, born 1895 Halesowen, Worcestershire. Her middle name is not recorded in the marriage records or Death records but it does appear in her birth record. Please can you explain why this might be? Thanks Regards Richard |