{"id":780,"date":"2017-02-25T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:51:07","slug":"middle-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/news\/middle-names\/","title":{"rendered":"What middle names can tell us"},"content":{"rendered":"

The middle names of people often provide useful information about a person’s family or origins. Boys are sometimes given their mother’s maiden name, for example – this seems to be particularly prevalent in Scottish families.<\/p>\n

Our project is uncovering lots of interesting middle names: including the Farnhill WW1 Volunteer James Scarborough Theodore Pollard; and the younger brother of another Volunteer, Harry Mossman Dawson.<\/p>\n

One of these is named after the place the family used to live, and the other was given an old family name. I’m sure you can guess which is which.<\/p>\n

So our research has shown that James Pollard was descended, on his mother’s side, from the Scarborough family – prominent in the area from the very earliest records. Harry Dawson’s family, however, were relatively new to the area having previously lived near Mossman Fields in Shipley.<\/p>\n

If you would like to help us untangle the family histories of the 68 men from Farnhill who volunteered to fight in WW1, please email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The middle names of people often provide useful information about a person’s family or origins. Boys are sometimes given their mother’s maiden name, for example – this seems to be particularly prevalent in Scottish families. Our project is uncovering lots of interesting middle names: including the Farnhill WW1 Volunteer James Scarborough Theodore Pollard; and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project","_seopress_titles_desc":"Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}