Any wiccans in the family you could call Witch Hazel?
Paul McCartney’s maternal great-grandmother was named Mary. She gave birth to Owen, who married a woman named Mary (Paul’s grandmother) and they had a daughter named Mary (Paul’s mother).
Does anyone else remember the following event? In the 1980’s or 1990’s there was a man who was nominated by whoever was President at the time for the Supreme Court. He eventually decided for some reason that he didn’t want the job (something about some people within the President’s party opposing him), but in the meantime the President gave a press conference where he introduced the prospective justice and his wife and daughter. The man and his wife had named their daughter after the wife. Not just the first name, but both the first and last names. The daughter didn’t use Jr. in her name though.
And that’s the Mary in “Let It Be”, right, not The Virgin Mary?
Madonna Ciccone was named after her mother, Madonna Ciccone.
Yes. And Paul named his first daughter Mary.
McCartney’s family seems to have a weird coincidence of bring people with identical names into it. Both his father and his brother married women named Angela, his first wife’s daughter was Heather and his second wife was Heather, Linda’s grandmothers were both named Stella, and Paul’s biological daughter Mary married Alistair, while second biological daughter Stella married Alasdahair.
I know a family that the mother & daughter are each named Joanna. The daughter is called JJ - for “Joanna Junior”
J. J. Caucus, the first wife of Mike Doonesbury in the comic strip Doonesbury, is actually named Joan Jr. (Or, at least, it was explained this way when her character was introduced.) Her mother is the character Joanie Caucus.
My paternal Great-grandmother was Grace Lucy.
My paternal Grandmother: Grace Lucy [Grandfather’s Surname]
Her Second daughter: Grace Lucy [Grandfather’s Surname] (No junior. Went by the nickname Joney.)
Me? G. Lucy [Grandfather’s Surname]. No nick name. Got “stuck” with the middle name.
PIA? Naaaa. Not a chance.
Lucy.
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Well, there’s always Alma Jr., daughter of Ennis and Alma, in Brokeback Mountain.
My middle name is also my mother’s first name. (How common is this?)
My MIL and one of my SILs have the same middle name.
In my father’s family, the oldest son has always gotten the same first name. So, my grandfather, father, and one brother, who was born and died the year after I was born, all have the same first name. The youngest of my sisters has the female version of that name, and my youngest brother has Dad’s first name as his middle name.
There’s a tradition in the maternal side of my mother-in-law that the first daughter is called Letitia, which apparently goes back quite a few generations. My mother-in-law’s mother bucked the tradition, deeming the name to be quite horrible, so named her first daughter something else, but still retained Letitia as a middle name.
In my own family tree, there’s quite a few recurrences of Nancy’s, Mary’s, Elizabeths, but not a great deal of mother-daughter name continuity. Thankfully, on both sides, there seems to be a pattern of giving a daughter their own individual name.
I was given the Irish variation of D’Mother’s name…
Didn’t [tennis player] Carling Basset have a daughter known to all and sundry as CJ ie Carling Junior?
What about women using their maiden name as a first name for an offspring? I knew a fella called Nelson and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out WTF his parents called him that, till I heard his mother call herself by her full [first, maiden and married] names …
(I’ve forgotten what her name was, I just remember the son being lumbered with the name Nelson)
Of the Elgin Suchnsuch’s ???
I knew a girl in HS who was named after her mother- and they used the same names, not a variation. ( Karen )
Cartooniverse
Martha Stewart was named after her mother and was called “Little Martha” as a child, with her mother being “Big Martha”. Long before she was famous the “Big” and “Little” became a bit of a family joke, since the younger Martha grew much taller than her mother.
I’m told that this isn’t true for Sephardim.