From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Mar 3 14:19:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k23LJxjb015334; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:19:59 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k23LJvEh015805 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:19:58 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k23Io5FI028163 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:50:05 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k23Io5Hs028162 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:50:05 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k23HejFI024836 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:40:45 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k23KAQ77005096 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:10:26 -0700 X-Envelope-From: tonin1@airmail.net Fri Mar 3 13:10:25 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k23KAPjb005087 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:10:25 -0700 Received: from wmail-0.airmail.net (wmail-0.airmail.net [209.196.70.87]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k23KAMm0018425 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:10:22 -0700 Received: from airmail3.airmail.net ([209.196.123.60] helo=webmail.airmail.net) by wmail-0.airmail.net with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FFGbW-000KvO-O9 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:10:22 -0600 Received: from 79.93.425e.cidr.airmail.net ([66.94.147.121]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user tonin1@airmail.net) by webmail.airmail.net with HTTP; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:10:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1127.66.94.147.121.1141416619.squirrel@webmail.airmail.net> In-Reply-To: <200603031900.k23J0IGw023052@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200603031900.k23J0IGw023052@lists5.rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:10:19 -0600 (CST) From: tonin1@airmail.net To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Unmarried Parents I was reading the other day an article on this subject. A child would be named John Father Mother. If the parents married or the father otherwise recognized and legitimatized the child then the mother name was dropped and the father name was adopted. This was an article about watching for potential illegitimate children whose middle name is a surname. This is NOT to say that all surnames used as middle names means the child is illegitimate. It simply was a custom and can assist in tracking a person later in life if the father's name was adopted. I would check for a later marriage record for the parents, or a will in which the father named the children as his heirs. Also check the law of the area in which the family lived. Was Common Law marriage recognized after a period of cohabitation? Tree Mother [Screener note: 500+ lines of quoted digest trimmed off]