Some of my ancestors were named for other family members. I
wrote of some of these in another blog post “Same Name”. But there were some
others I didn’t mention. My mother and here sisters first names were from
characters in a book my grandmother read. They were Yvonne, Bonalyn, Millicent
and Constance. I wish I knew the title of the book. My mother’s middle name was
my grandmother’s sister’s middle name, Arlene. The only problem was the doctor misspelled
it as Arline. When I was born I was given my mother’s name reversed, Arlene
Millicent. As for my grandmother, her name was Hazel, and she said she’d come
back and haunt anyone who named their child Hazel. He sister’s first name was
Mabel. I don’t know if those names were unattractive in the 1890s, but they
would not have been choices my mom and her sisters would have chosen in the mid
twentieth century.
My grandfather, Edward Wiedrich may have had a middle name. I’ve
seen some evidence that his middle name was McKinley. Was he named for the president?
My paternal aunt, Carolyn Moore’s middle name was Grover and I wonder if she
was named for Grover Cleveland.
My son, Sean was named for John Wayne’s character in the
movie “The Quiet Man”. It was a favorite movie of both my husband and me. We
had decided that if we had a girl next we would name her Mary Kate after
Maureen O’Hara’s character in the same movie. Mary Kate turned out to be a boy
and so he was named for the commander of the Alamo, William Travis. Travis’
middle name is Earl after my father.
#Namesake, #52 Ancestors, #Hazel Bristol, #Edward Wiedrich, #Caroline
Moore, #Sean Baker, #Travis Baker
