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?
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Thread: Named and shamed
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07-06-2010, 4:31 PM #1birdlipGuest
Named and shamed
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07-06-2010, 4:38 PM #2ET in the USAGuest
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.
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07-06-2010, 6:08 PM #3Colin MorettiGuest
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
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07-06-2010, 6:37 PM #4ET in the USAGuest
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]
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08-06-2010, 5:03 AM #5birdlipGuest
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08-06-2010, 8:05 AM #6Colin MorettiGuest
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
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