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Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Choice of godmother and birth name
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 21:41:10 -0400

Maureen Tighe-Brown wrote:

>I have followed with interest the current thread on choice of godfather.
>Are any of you knowledgeable about similar reasons for choice of godmother?

Interesting question. I thought Godparents were usually a couple. My
own Godmother and Godfather were. I wonder how a Godmother and
Godfather would raise a child if necessary if they were not living in
the same household? BTW, they were not relatives, but good friends.
But that's probably due to the fact that no relatives were in the country.

>How about reasons for choice of the child's name?

I found as a general rule for first born sons to be named after the
father and first born daughters named after the mother. Naming the
sons after the father was the more common of the two. In most
of my aunts' and uncles' families (8) there is a son named after
the father and a daughter named after the mother. Only my own mom
and one of her sisters did not follow this trend.

In the case of my maternal grandfather, his parents had a son named
James (Imre after the father,) that died as a baby. But then strangely
enough, later they had a second son and also named him James. Same odd
thing ocurred with my maternal grandmother. The first baby named Suzannah
died, and the next female baby was also named Suzannah (my grandmother).

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