[or-roots] Problems with names

[Eugene Barnes]

My wife's uncle was born E. K. and did not have given
names until enlistment in USA required him to take them
on.

I represented a client who was a grandfather when it
was discovered that his surname was incorrect due
to his grandfather renaming him when his mother left
the child.  One call to SS got it straightened out.

I have a great uncle whose given name appears as
Mellin, Mellen, Mellon, and Melvin. His 2nd wife
changed the birth places of her father and she in
every census.  Turned out her father had four wives,
lived in 5 states, and she was the family baby sitter.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cecil Houk 
  To: or-roots 
  Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:06 PM
  Subject: [or-roots] Problems with names


  FWIW:  My maternal grandmother's brother, Earnest Andeson, was not given a middle name at birth.  So when somebody insisted that he had to have at least a middle initial (probably Social Security), he said, "F."  "F" as in Fern; his wife.  (I still don't know her maiden name.)  If they ever had any children it could have been Clarence Anderson; Fern often called me by that name, but would correct herself.

  Earnie and Fern are long gone. So this is a brick wall.  :-(

  (a recap)  My maternal grandfather, Cecil Clark Rulaford's father was born Edgar McMullin (or some variation of that spelling).  He became George A. Rulaford, and married my gr grandmother, Martha Jane Ford in 1880.  All of the Rulafords are gone now, and we may never know the truth.  (see my web page menu in my footer)

  Why do we encounter these brick walls?  We may never know.

  Good hunting,
  Cecil


  Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
  PO Box 530833
  San Diego CA 92153
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