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Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts
Her second son with Keith Catto was Alexander and the name continued down the line.
I'm trying to remember Scottish naming patterns...
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Not infallible....but frequently followed in my Scots/ Irish families
1st son=father's father
2nd son=mother's father
3rd son=father
4th and successive sons....named for brothers, favourite uncles etc
1st daughter=mother's mother
2nd daughter=father's mother
3rd daughter= mother4th and successive daughters named for aunts etc
If a child died in infancy, often the same name will be reused, which can appear to throw the sequence out. For years, OH's family followed an Archibald/John pattern, with one son per generation. I was looking in quite the wrong direction before I discovered the last known Archibald was actually a second son and I should have been looking for a Peter as his grandfather
Archibald was his maternal grandfather's name