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Hi just wondering if anyone knows if this was a common name in Victorian England-it was the middle name of my Grandad and I always wondered about it-when i came onto genes reunited found out he had a granfather and uncle with Osmond as first name -just curious thanks

If you enter Osmond as a first name on Freebmd births up to 1900, there are quite a lot!

ok thanks seems to be out of fashion now

Osmond \o-smo-nd, os-mond\ as a boy's name is a variant of Osman (Scandinavian), and the meaning of Osmond is "God's protection".

Roy

Hi Jane,

I had a similar experience finding an ancestor of hubby's with the first name of Baron.

xJ

You will find that lots of 1st names that we would consider surnames will occur in order to keep a wifes maiden name (often used as a middle name as well) or to appease a rich rellie.

My SIL gave her eldest son her maiden name as his christian name and their family surname will die out, no other males being born.

And I worked with a lad who changed his first name at the request of a rich aunt who wanted to leave all her estated to him, but only if he changed his name. Name changed, aunt died and left all her money to charity hehehehe...

And as said changing fashions in names, remember long before it became a popular name Florence was actually a boys name.

My father & his paternal grandfather shared the same middle name, and dad never knew where it came from. But doing genealogy I have discovered it was his g/g/grandmothers maiden name.

Your story made me smile PP. My daughter has one of her middle names as the female and shorter version of her that of her maternal grandfather. The male or female version has been carried on in the familynow for four generations.

She has been so affected by his actions before he died, his long term abusive attitude towards us all, and that he put her life at risk one day when she was about nine because he said she needed to be taught a lesson, that she no longer includes that middle name in anything.

She will be eighteen next year and the first thing she plans to do is get it removed officially from as many records as possible. Her brother who has the full male versionas one of his middle names has also dropped it from use.

At least I will be able to provide future generations with the reason why this all happened.

J

THANKYOU FOR YOUR RESPONSES-did wonder where it orginated from so many thanks