Naming Convention

Many families have their own naming conventions, which is just a fancy phrase for saying traditions. Some families, the eldest male children all have the same middle name. In Victorian England, it was tradition for the eldest male child to share a first name with their paternal grandfather and the second male child would share a name with the maternal grandfather. Sadly with as many children that died as infants as they did in Victorian England, many times names were recycled. This means that in a family there might have been 9 children, 5 boys and of the five boys you may have three named Edward Joseph. But it also means that you can take a reasonable guess at what the grandfathers' names might have been!