On 25 Aug 2006, at 12:47, Margery Allcock wrote:
I was born to Dorothy and William Burgh. My father said that, with a
surname like Burgh, nobody needed a middle name for identification, so
I
never had one.
My Mother used to be Dorothy May Smith; as a child there was another
Dorothy
May Smith in the same class at school. Maybe Smiths need more than one
middle name!
My experience of indexing old birth registers is that very often the
children with common surnames, especially the Smiths, only got one
first name whilst those with more distinctive surnames got two or even
three given names!
David wrote:
And yet here in Australia we would say Dah-na and Tah-ra: never
anything different with those two.
Same here, David - and I was brought up in Scotland.
Also in south east England
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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