Named and shamed

[birdlip]

Just noticed this on IGI:

Squire Walker ROBINSON b 27 Jun 1844, bap 25 Dec 1844. Mother Eliza

Do you think she was trying to make a point?

[ET in the USA]

It seems there more than one way to 'skin a cat'.

I have seen that with my family, but just a slipped in middle name the same as the father's surname, never anything quite so blatant. You go girl.

[Colin Moretti]

Not necessarily, Charles Squire MILLER is my 2xg grandfather, the third child of his parents born some 4 years after their marriage, so it would seem to have been used as a Christian name as well.

In fact there are more than 1000 children (I stopped counting at that point) with that first name recorded in the IGI for England & Wales

Colin

[ET in the USA]

OK - I concede. In the 1851 census, there were 89 entries for someone with the first name of Prince & I suppose that they were not ALL royal indiscretions [But I still think it was a good move if he was sired by Squire Walker]

[birdlip]

Not necessarily, Charles Squire MILLER is my 2xg grandfather, the third child of his parents born some 4 years after their marriage, so it would seem to have been used as a Christian name as well.

In fact there are more than 1000 children (I stopped counting at that point) with that first name recorded in the IGI for England & Wales

Colin

Well...who'd have thunk it!
Perhaps I 've been watching too many BBC bonnet dramas...

[Colin Moretti]

...But I still think it was a good move if he was sired by Squire Walker

Undoubtedly.

The part of the country seems to have some bearing on the popularity of the name - more than 1000 in Lancashire alone, other counties I checked (not all, by any means) were all less than 100.

Was the use of the term Squire for a local landowner also regional, can anyone say?

Colin