Being nosy

[Kaz]

Jayne, with a Y! Karen Jayne

[Kaz]

My three are Christopher Stephen (his dad was Stephen), Rebecca Kate (Kate was my nan's middle name, she was Dorothy Kate, and B was born on her birthday) and Harry John (John for his dad's grandfather)

Mick is Michael David - David was his dad's name.

[saundra]

I'm saundra Ann because when my mum was expecting me they went to the pictures and there was a actress called saundra so that why I got my name
Once I was watching a film on tv and actually saw a saundra on the screen so I like to think it was the same film can't remember what it was about but I love my name
And im,sad that one of my granddaughter didn't have it as a second name

[Workingman]

My two are Michael Andrew and Rebecca Louise.

We looked at our and their uncles, aunts and cousins and wanted names not already used. Becky would have been Rachel but some friends had a daughter two weeks before and nicked it.

[miasmum]

I'm Shelley Anne Spencer When I was at school I hated Spencer because it was a boys name and I rarely used it. My dad was Eric Spencer and my Luke is Luke Timothy (after his dad) Spencer., so I obviously embraced the family connection. However, I love my Spencer now as I learned when I was doing my family tree that my Dad's mum, who he loved and died of breast cancer when he was 14 was named Annie and her maiden name was Spencer. So I am named after her. I am proud of it now and always use it. On their gravestone, that I had done for them when I did the family tree are Harry Spencer, (my great grandad) his wife Julia Spencer their daughter Annie Pratt nee Spencer (my grandma) and her son, my dad Eric Spencer Pratt.

Tim is Timothy Raymond after his Uncle Ray.

My mum was Daphne Jean, always known as Jean, named Daphne after the nice lady in the bed opposite, honestly who would do that
My dad as I said above was Eric Spencer Pratt always known as Rick

My dad went to register my birth. His list was my mums choice Fiona or Joanna. His choice Felicity or Samantha but on the way he came to thinking of Shelley Winters, as you do and then went and spelt it Shelly. So my birth certificate has a big crossing out and amendment on it because my mum sent him back to spell it properly.

[cromwell]

My father was William Leslie and my mother Sheila Pamela. My brother is Christopher Stephen (Steve).
MrsC is Christine, our daughter Eleanor Ruth and our son Edward James.
Mine are Nicholas R****
A*****. I'm not too keen on Nicholas but it's way bett7er than the other two!

[TheOstrich]

My middle name is Arthur. Hate it hate it hate it and never use it. My father was either Geoffrey Arthur or Arthur Geoffrey, nobody (including himself, I think) knew which.

Master O's middle name is Catterton. It's a family name on Mrs O's side and goes back generations. Mrs O's father's middle name was also Catterton and he was over the moon when we kept the tradition going - Master O has a crested signet ring passed down to him by Mrs O's father.

There is a Catterton Hall (first mentioned in the 13th Century) the site of which lies next to a village called Catterton near Selby, North Yorkshire, and I understand there's a familial "connection" back in the distant past. Mrs O's father's hobby was genealogy.

Catterton moated site is a well preserved example of a medieval manor site, retaining upstanding earthwork features on the main island and beyond the moat ditch to the north and east. The site will also retain important archaeological deposits, including organic remains within the moat ditches and in those sections now infilled. The two sets of ridge and furrow provide a sample of the wider medieval open field system which was associated with the manor house and the settlement of Catterton.

[JanB]

wow Ossie

[Workingman]

I know Catterton. It is in an olde worlde part of the country just north of Tadcaster 'twixt the rivers Wharfe and Ouse and half way between the battlefields of Towton Field (Roses) and Marston Moor (Civil). My sister's sister from another mother, Sue, lived just up the road when she was a kid.

Ossie, you will like some of the village names from around the area - Askham Bryan, Bolton Percy, Appleton Roebuck, Acaster Malbis and Street Houses. It's that sort of area.

[saundra]

Isent all this interesting
My brother was Terence moxon stones
Moxon being a family name my mum used to look in the news of the world every week to see if any relative had left her any cash she was convinced it was a long lost relative in Australia his widow is moxon stones
as a surname but they never had a child to pass it on