I too have a grandfather and a greatgrandfather who adopted middle names,
seemingly after they left Wales.
My greatgrandfather Edward JONES adopted Maldwyn as his middle name sometime
after 1901, but I have only ever seen this documented on his son's marriage
certificate as I have not yet managed to find his death.
His son David JONES was registered as such, but by the time of his marriage
30 odd years later, he was David Jones JONES.
Nothing like adding confusion!
Angela
Sydney
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From: Anthony Francis [mailto:Lynnant@shaw.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [POWYS] Adopted Middle Name (was GREAT- GRANDFATHER SEARCH)
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Adopted Middle Name (was GREAT- GRANDFATHER SEARCH)
Hi Lesley,
My grandfather adopted the middle name 'Maldwyn' when he moved from
Llanrwst to Machynlleth because someone else in the office already had his
name 'Owen Roberts'. He must have liked it and kept it when he moved away &
for the rest of his life, but he was always 'Owen' within the family.
cheers, Tony
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:33:42 +0000
From: Lesley <lc.moore(a)btopenworld.com>
Subject: [POWYS] Adopted Middle Name (was GREAT- GRANDFATHER SEARCH)
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Hi Julie
My great grandfather seems to have a middle name and I was told it was
adopted. Personally, I wondered if it was the same person or if a mistake
had been made. He came from sparsly populated mid Wales by Llandrindod
Wells and moved to south wales and became a miner so there was obviously
loads of William Evans there!! Thank you Julie for mentioning this.
Lesley
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