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SOURCE : IRISH RESEARCHERS.COM The Irish Naming Code: Hidden Patterns in Names  Irish families have kept this strict pattern when naming their children for centuries Irish families have maintained a distinct formula in their naming patterns   from as early as the 18th and 19th centuries. The formula helped them automatically determine what name was to be given to what number or    gender in their children lineup.                                                        The pattern was as follows for SONS : First-born son: Named after the PATERNAL grandfather Second-born son: Named after the MATERNAL grandfather Third-born son: Named after the FATHER Fourth-born son: Named after the FATHER’S ELDEST BROTHER Fifth-born son: Named after the MOTHER’S ELDEST BROTHER For DAUGHTERS , the pattern...

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"Who? - No!" was my mother’s response to the question "Did  you know that your mother had an older sister named Annie?"  She and I were given the same middle name "Anne", now we knew why. Then her questions began and I told her what I had learned. Assuming the information may be emotional to grasp, I warned her this may be intitally upsetting. My discovery of Annie Agnes, born on February 23, 1889, was a result of a detailed pursuit within the Census records of my grandmother's Burke family in Natick, Massachusetts.   After the 1889 record of her birth and baptism, Annie is ennumerated twice in the Census of 1900.       Two plus weeks later, on the June 20 th her parents,  Edward H. Burke (1858-1928) and       Annie E. Kearns (1861-1940)  stated she lived at home with the family on Farwell                 Street in Natick. [Guilt, shame, saddness …?] The Ho...