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HelpYou won't believe this.
My grandma's brother, my great uncle, is named (And yes, this is his actual legal name!) Sherwood Durwood. Grandma says her daddy was drunk when he named Uncle Sherwood. Well, I certainly hope so, as I'd hate to think anyone would be capable of inventing that monstrosity while sober.
Oh, and by the way, my great-grandpa's name was Everett Junior [Last Name] instead of Everett [Last Name], Jr. Go figure.
R.I.P. Dust Buddy and Nessie Kim
Oh, and by the way, my great-grandpa's name was Everett Junior [Last Name] instead of Everett [Last Name], Jr. Go figure.
R.I.P. Dust Buddy and Nessie Kim
This message was edited 8/23/2014, 12:28 AM
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So that was the dad's excuse...where was the mom when this horror of a name was decided on?
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She was there but she seemed to be under the impression that middle names don't matter much. I really don't know why she consented other than that.
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Is it possible she could have been drugged up, too? I know women of a certain time were pretty much knocked out while giving birth, whether they wanted to be or not.
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I doubt it. She wasn't in a hospital. It was the rural South in the 1930's.
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Sherwood isnt that bad (though does remind me of the band ) but paired with another wood endibg name...yeah not so great. I agree.
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I don't think Everett Junior is THAT bad... compared to Sherwood Durwood. Then again, most names look good next to that one.
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Well, Sherwood Durwood is bad. But the "drunk when he named him" story sounds apocryphal to me. Like it was a joke told by the parents that took on a life of its own. To believe it is literally true, you'd have to believe first, that no thought was put into what the name of the coming child would be before the birth. Second, that the father, while drunk, put the name on the birth certificate with either no knowledge of the mother that this was being done, or with her knowledge and with the knowledge that he was drunk and with no mention of this name to her beforehand, and that she consented to this. And third, that once he had sobered up, he didn't realize that Sherwood Durwood was a bad idea conceived while drunk and didn't change it pronto.
My father was named after his father, and had Joseph Anthony Jr. on everything, his driver's license and such, but discovered late in life that the Jr. was not actually on his birth certificate.
Also, I remember when my son was born and we were filling out the information for his birth certificate. The name that had been chosen since forever was William James Lastname IV. But when it came to filling out information for the birth certificate, I was unsure what to do. I didn't know whether to put the "IV" after William James, but before Lastname, or after William James Lastname. I initially put it after Willam James and before Lastname. My husband said he didn't think it ought to be that way. We asked advice from the lady who was going to be taking the information and she said the "IV" should go after the surname. But I came close to having a son whose birth certificate would have read William James IV Lastname. Even though in my mind his name was William James Lastname IV. So probably the same thing with your great-grandfather's name.
My father was named after his father, and had Joseph Anthony Jr. on everything, his driver's license and such, but discovered late in life that the Jr. was not actually on his birth certificate.
Also, I remember when my son was born and we were filling out the information for his birth certificate. The name that had been chosen since forever was William James Lastname IV. But when it came to filling out information for the birth certificate, I was unsure what to do. I didn't know whether to put the "IV" after William James, but before Lastname, or after William James Lastname. I initially put it after Willam James and before Lastname. My husband said he didn't think it ought to be that way. We asked advice from the lady who was going to be taking the information and she said the "IV" should go after the surname. But I came close to having a son whose birth certificate would have read William James IV Lastname. Even though in my mind his name was William James Lastname IV. So probably the same thing with your great-grandfather's name.
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Well, I do know that my great-grandpa had an alcohol problem at one point, and my grandma well recalls him being plastered when he came up with the name. He also did not have good judgment in general and even when he sobered up, he still thought Sherwood Durwood was funny. Also on the maternal side of my family, the name is usually decided upon after a baby is born. I acquired my birth name that way, as did my mama, my aunt, my grandma, and so on.
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going slightly OT
Don't know if there was any drinking involved but I actually know a guy whose father filled out the information for the birth certificate with a totally different name than the one he and the boys's mother had agreed on. They had agreed on Andreas, father Manfred named his son Manfred instead. The parents got divorced only a couple of years after that.
Don't know if there was any drinking involved but I actually know a guy whose father filled out the information for the birth certificate with a totally different name than the one he and the boys's mother had agreed on. They had agreed on Andreas, father Manfred named his son Manfred instead. The parents got divorced only a couple of years after that.
This message was edited 8/23/2014, 10:03 AM
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