Re: The name HOD

Naomi wrote:

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Of course, it may be a previous surname incorporated as a name, but
maternal surnames are usually added as a middle name, aren't they?
It's definitely not Hod's mother's maiden name.
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It had been a northern custom to use a surname as a single forename (eg
Fletcher Christian of the Bounty fame) long before the middle-class started
using surnames as middle names in the nineteenth century. Your Hod may have
been inherited as a forename through a number of generations.

Middle forename-surnames weren't necessarily 'maternal'. The surname was
often taken from an earlier age, especially if it had brought an
inheritance to the family.

Chris




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