Further example: my uncle (by marriage) was named at birth John Lester
Henderson.  When he went into the Army in WWI, he found an awful lot of
Johns so he changed it to Lester John Henderson (with no legal
documentation).  However, while in the Army, he was nicknamed Heinie
(supposedly from 'Hennie' for Henderson) and no one in town knew him as
anything but Heinie (except my Aunt and the family of course).
John


> From:    Lyn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: given name "Shadrack"
>
> My great-grandfather's name was Andrew Lee Goodman. However, he was
> known to all as John.  Luckily, there still are enough living to pass
> that on as a fact, so 100 years from now, our descendants will not be
> scratching their heads trying to figure out a nonexistent error.
>
> Until my mother's generation, everyone had a nickname.  Sometimes it
> made sense, sometimes it didn't.  But to this day, these people are
> referred to by nicknames, probably because no one outside of the
> immediate family even knew what their given names were.
>
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