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From: "Sharon Rae Becker" <>
Subject: Re: [IOWA] Names
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 18:27:27 -0500


Sorry, Lori. I meant to post this for the entire list. Guess my mind went
out to lunch.
: ( Sharon

>
> I don't think it was a German "thing" to recycle names. My English Quaker
> side recycled their names, too. I noticed that there was a pattern to
their
> use of names.
>
> The oldest son was named after the grandfather. So, Isaac's first-born son
> would be named Thomas. Thomas's first-born son would be named Isaac. Other
> family names that were used generation after generation were William,
John,
> Sarah, Elizabeth, and Lucy. This "tradition" spanned from 925 to the
middle
> 1800's. (925 is as far back as I have been able to go.) It seems that when
> the families started moving into Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, They dropped
> the tradition of recycling names.
>
> Makes for great research, doesn't it? I've had to spend many an hour
trying
> to keep all of those names straight! Without reference charts, I get lost
> when I work on this family.
>
> Sharon Becker
> Osceola, Clarke Co., Iowa
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Names
>
>
> > Hi, all!!
> > This discussion of names is very interesting, and maybe someone
could
> help me
> > find an answer about my ancestor's names. On both my mother's and
> father's sides of
> > my family, there is a "recycling" of the same names, even on the same
> group of kids
> > in the same generation. For instance, on my mother's side her father
and
> brothers
> > are Henry Otto, Otto Herman, Edward Herman and two girls named Hedwig
and
> Hedwick
> > both with different middle names(one middle name was Louise and I have
to
> look up
> > the other). On my father's side, we have Henry Alfred and Marlan Henry,
> and Anthony
> > John and Harold Anthony. The next generation back does the same kind of
> > "recycling". Is that common or is that a peculiar German habit? All
the
> names I've
> > given are from from first generation Americans of German descent.
> > Any ideas? Thanks and I hope you are all having a good day!!
> > Lori
> >
> > Bill Houdek wrote:
> >
> > > The whole subject of how one is named can or has opened a whole
> > > new or old line of discussion.
> > >
> > > My given names are William Richard. My paternal g/father was Richard
> > > and my maternal g/father was William. My Mother knew I would always
> > > be called by the nick-name and she did not like Dick so the order of
> > > my
> > > given names were decided that way.
> > >
> > > Our son-in-law is Frank Mike and goes by Mike. His father is Mike
> > > Frank
> > > and is called Frank. My father was Paul King and went by P.K.
> > >
> > > Bill Houdek
> > >
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