More on names

I found Weenie's baptism certificate noting that none other than Francis and Frances Blumle themselves were Weenie's godparents! I thought you might be interested.

I always like to look at when such documents as these were issued and speculate as to why Weenie needed his baptismal certificate in 1940, for example. In this case, I believe it was probably so that Mom could receive her First Communion. Remember those days when you had to prove six different ways that you were worthy to receive sacraments from the Catholic church?

I have an additional baptismal extract for Weenie dated 1954--no doubt for Mom's wedding. Oddly enough, this 1954 extract says Bettie Lippman (as it does on her wedding record) but it says Barbara Lippman on the 1940 extract. Just noticed that today and thought I would share it!

Anyhow, I've been thinking more about names and how they came about. We know Uncle Tim's middle name Bentley comes from Captain John Bentley (his great grandfather) and Peter's middle name is also a family name (his grandmother's name was Edith Grover Handran--but I"m not really sure exactly where it came from for Edith). So we suppose that Milton is also a family name someplace. Dad was a Junior, so Milton was bestowed on his dad by his grandparents in 1901 when he was born. Since Paul Senior was child #6, I can imagine it's possible the Milton might be referring to a close friend or respected acquaintance such as with Weenie. So that's one of my new research angles. Who is Milton? It is not likely I will solve this and I may never even be able to make an educated guess but I'll never stop wondering.