PLEEASE RESEARCHERS OF FAMILIES FROM SCOTLAND & IRELAND BELOW IS THE TWO
MOST NEEDED TTO HAVE IN YOUR POSESCION WHEN RESEARCHING> FOR
INSTANCANSE<??> WHEN ONE COMES IN CONTACT WITH AN ANCESTROAL FAMILY FROM SCOTLAND
OR
IRELAND WITH THE FATHER NAMED GEORGE< AFTER HIS GATHER GEORGE MARRIED TO A
WOMAN WHOSE FATHER IS NAMED GEORGETHE FIRST THREE SONS WILL BE NAMED GEORGE<
THEE FIRST IS GOING TO BE NAMED GEORGE AFTER THE FATHERS FATHER<GEORGE< THE
SECOND SON WILL BE NAMED GGEORGEE AFTER MAMAS FATHER & THE THIRD SONN ELII
BE NAMED GEORGE AFTER THE FATHER, NOW YA TINK TAHA IS CONFUSEING<???> IF
THERE are more Sons in That Family Theier First two SONS WILL BE NAMED GEORGE
AFTER GRAND PA & GRT GRAND PA, NEVER MIND HOW MANY PEOPLE ONE FINDS WITH
THE SAME NAME; CAMPBELLS FOR INSTNCE>|<??> In the LOWESVILLE AREA OF AMHERST
& NELSON COUNTY VA THE CAMPBELL"S
HAVE A BUCK & GEEORGE REUNION THIS BIT OF BUILT IN CONFUSION IS JUST PART
OF LIFE. F MY LATE BROTHERSHAD TWO SONS IN TWO MARRIAGGES & BOTH OF THE
SONS HAS THEIR FATHERS FIRST & LAST NAME. IT WAS A CHILD NAMEIG PRACTICE OF
SCOTLAND & IRELAND. CVIDENTLY MANY AMERICN REARCHERS HAVE MADE THE MISTAKE OF
NOT LEARNING THAT OLD COUNTRY PRACTICE, NOW THEIR SECRET<!> EACH OF
THOSE SAME FIRST & LAST NAMED FAMILY MEMBERS HAD A <NICK NAME> THAT WAS NOT
REGISTERED AT THE COURT HOUSE <BUT THAT IS HOW OUR ANCESTORS KNEW WHO THEY
WERE REFERING TO>THOSE old Folks all had a Family Collection. MY mother had
her GRANNYS TRUNK withthe OLD FAMILY RECORDS Thhereare some of those Trunks
Still seting BACK in the SHADOWS, THE INFORMATION IN GRANNYS TRUNK will TELL
US MUCH OF what we are for, ! ! . CUZ AT
Campbell Marriage Practices
The most notable and discernible marriage practice followed by both the
"Black David" and "White David" Campbells of Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee, is the frequency of cousin marriages or at least marriages within the
Campbell Clan. One result of this consanguinity is that the author of this
essay is a direct descendant of both Black David Campbell and his brother
Robert! This _hyperlinked table_ (
http://philnorf.tripod.com/table-1.htm)
provides some examples of these cousin marriages, including the degrees of
consanguinity from both the Civil and Canon Law perspectives, for members of the
"Black David" and "White David" families.
Campbell Child Naming Practices
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both the Scots and the Irish
had a frequently used scheme for child naming. The first born male child
was normally named after the paternal grandfather; likewise, the first borne
female child was named after the maternal grandmother. The second borne
male child was named after the maternal grandfather and the second borne female
child was named after the paternal grandmother. Only with the third born
son and daughter, did you use the names of the parents, if those names
differed from those of the grandparents. In many but not all cases, this naming
scheme seems to have been used by the Southwest Virginia Campbell families
that are discussed at this web site