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center;\">&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-lg-8\" style=\"padding: 0% 1.5% 0% 3%;\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"\">UK Naming Conventions<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">One naming convention common in the UK was:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>First male child was named after his paternal grandfather.<\/li>\n<li>Second male child was named after his maternal grandfather.<\/li>\n<li>Third male child was named after his father.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth male child was named after his father\u2019s oldest\/favorite brother.<\/li>\n<li>First female child was named after her maternal grandmother.<\/li>\n<li>Second female child was named after her paternal grandmother.<\/li>\n<li>Third female child was named after her mother.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth female child was named after her mother\u2019s oldest\/favorite sister.<\/li>\n<li>Surnames were also often used as middle names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"\">German Naming conventions<\/h4>\n<p>Multiple of the boys in the family often had the same first name with only the middle names being unique. The same is true of girls<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they continued this for several generations in the U.S. However, other times they switches the first and middle names around so that the unique name was the first name when they arrived in the U.S.. 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