{"id":786,"date":"2020-08-06T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/?page_id=786"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:24:59","slug":"1-4-scottish-naming-conventions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/1-4-scottish-naming-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"1.4 Scottish Naming Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNaming Conventions: Scottish and English<\/b><\/span><\/u><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Within many cultures children are given first names that are almost “predetermined” by the names of their fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles and aunts. \u00a0Scottish naming convention often dictated that the first son be named for the mother’s father; the second son be named for the father’s father; and the third son be named for the father. \u00a0This naming convention often presents valuable clues to an individual’s family, and, in particular, to the parents. \u00a0In the case of William Campbell, the first son born to William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens was named\u00a0William<\/strong>\u00a0H. Campbell. \u00a0Sarah Ann Haven’s Father was\u00a0William<\/strong>\u00a0Havens. The second son born to William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens was named\u00a0Sylvester<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell. \u00a0William Campbell’s own Father was Sylvester Campbell. \u00a0The third son born to William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens was named\u00a0John<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell. \u00a0Under the Scottish naming convention, the third son would be named for his Father, William Campbell. \u00a0But there already was a surviving William Campbell in the family and so the process defaulted to naming the third son either for one of William Campbell’s younger brothers,\u00a0John<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell, who may have died in infancy or for one of Sarah Ann Haven’s relatives,\u00a0John<\/strong>\u00a0Havens, an older Brother or\u00a0John<\/strong>\u00a0Havens, Sarah’s Grandfather. \u00a0In his second marriage to Isabella Jane Sidey, William Campbell and Isabella Jane Sidey name three more sons, David, George and Alexander. \u00a0All these sons are named for William Campbell’s brothers – sons in the family of Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason. \u00a0In all, William Campbell names six sons with first names that are all found in the family of Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason. \u00a0In light of Scottish naming conventions in William Campbell’s day, this represents significant indirect evidence linking William Campbell to the family of Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason.\u00a0\u00a0Also, the son of William Campbell who, by convention, is to be named for his paternal grandfather is named\u00a0Sylvester\u00a0– a name that, across Scotland, is almost unique within the extended family of\u00a0Sylvester\u00a0Campbell and Helen Mason. \u00a0Each son and daughter of\u00a0Sylvester\u00a0Campbell and Helen Mason, in turn, names one of their sons\u00a0Sylvester. \u00a0The name\u00a0Sylvester\u00a0survives as a name of choice down to the present among the descendants of this Campbell line. Currently, in 2010, a bearer of this “signature” Campbell name,\u00a0Sylvester Campbell<\/strong>, still resides in Ontario. This Ontario-based\u00a0Sylvester Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0traces his ancestry back to\u00a0William Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0(1819) and his second wife,\u00a0Isabella Jane Sidey<\/strong>. Other related bearers of the name,\u00a0Sylvester Campbell,<\/strong>\u00a0still reside on the ancestral farms in Scotland and around the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Also too, boys’ middle names often reflect a mother’s maiden name. \u00a0For example, William Campbell named the first born son from his second marriage David\u00a0Sidey<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell. \u00a0David’s \u00a0biological Mother’s maiden name was Isabella Jane\u00a0Sidey<\/strong>. \u00a0William Campbell named the first born son from his first marriage to Sarah Ann\u00a0Havens<\/strong>, William\u00a0H<\/strong>. Campbell, as noted in the 1851\/1852 census. \u00a0Before the summer of 2010<\/u>, this investigator believed that the “H” stood for either\u00a0Havens<\/strong>\u00a0or a derivative of that surname. \u00a0Fragmentary evidence related in 2010 by Sylvester Campbell and Clarence Ash suggests a personal as well as spiritual relationship between the family of William Campbell and the family of the Pastor of the Congregational Church at Cold Springs, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Reverend William\u00a0Hayden<\/strong>. Interestingly, when William H. Campbell marries Catharine Beggs, they name their first born son Frederick\u00a0Havens<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell, linking back to the biological Mother that William H. Campbell knew for only about six years. Moreover, the birth registration of Frederick\u00a0Havens<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell (1874) notes his Father as William\u00a0Hayden<\/strong>\u00a0Campbell, perhaps clarifying for the first time the meaning of the\u00a0H<\/strong>. in William\u00a0H<\/strong>. Campbell.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THESIS<\/u><\/strong>:\u00a0Based on Scottish naming convention,\u00a0William Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0(1819-1897) named his six sons\u00a0exactly<\/strong>\u00a0as would be expected of a son of\u00a0Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason<\/strong>. This pattern repeats itself in the families of his three brothers Sylvester, Adam and George.\u00a0All four of these brothers<\/strong>\u00a0name sons William, Sylvester, George and Alexander – all names drawn from the names of sons born to\u00a0Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason<\/strong>. \u00a0*Also, William Campbell named the very significant second son, Sylvester, as a tribute to\u00a0his Father, Sylvester Campbell<\/b>, and this choice becomes all the more significant due to the uniqueness of the name, Sylvester, as a “marker name” that transcends at least nine generations of this Campbell line. To have named his sons as he did, William Campbell would almost surely have had to be a son of Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ANTITHESIS<\/u>:\u00a0<\/strong>The “antithesis position” that\u00a0William Campbell\u00a0(1819-1897) named all six sons, especially using the name, Sylvester, in a way that follows Scottish naming convention so closely, by accident, is not a powerful position to take based on the strength of this indirect evidence.
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