On 20/07/14 16:16, Freelance Traveller wrote:

> (Digression resulting in subject change provided from this point
> forward, as grist for your Traveller mill to add 'local color'.)
>
> Other interesting past, present, and/or fictional naming patterns:

<HUGE snip>

Nothing to do with surnames, but it was (and may well still be) the
tradition in parts of Scotland for the first born male to be given his
mother's maiden name as his middle name.

David Shaw