I just want to comment on the given names which is confusing you. I
have found that when an immigrant first came to England, probably with
little knowledge of the language/dialects he profferred his
documentation and the official recorded as per the custom of our
country which is that, however many given names we were baptised with,
we normally use our first given name.
This was not the custom on the European mainland where the first given
names were the names donated to the child by the
witnesses/sponsors/god parents at the baptism - the child's own given
name was usually written after the sponsors name(s), just before his
surname.
When I eventually discovered the family of my gt. grandfather who was
the first immigrant to England it was obvious straight away why his
first son was named William Henry ... usually noted on the census as
William H. but everyone called him Henry. In Germany I discovered
his paternal grandfather was Heinrich. The sponsor/godparent/witness
of the name "William" was his English maternal grandfather William
Speight.
The naming pattern was often the same naming pattern as that in the UK:-
1st son named after its paternal grandfather
2nd son named after its maternal grandfather
3rd son named after its father
4th son named after its father's oldest brother
1st daughter named after maternal grandmother
2nd daughter named after its paternal grandmother
3rd daughter named after its mother
4th daughter named after its mother's eldest sister.
Back in Germany my migrant gt.grandfather's 5 younger siblings had
their own given name, and the first sponsors name was always "Conrad",
e.g.:-
Conrad Theodor;
Conrad Friedrich,
Conradina Christine,
Conrad Heinrich.
The man who brought my gt.grandfather to England as a young child was
his maternal Uncle Conrad.
I hope this helps in some way.
Cheers,
Rena