Hi Nancy:
The following web site goes in to great details on 18th Century German
Naming Customs:
httm://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm
Fred
In a message dated 11/9/2009 14:42:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
nancy_ellen56@yahoo.com writes:
I was wondering if there were any set rules as to how a child should be
named during the 17, 18, 19th centuries in Preussian Germany. I know from
some church records that witnesses at the christenings were honored by giving
the child one of their names, but was their a set standard or rules like
in Holland. for instance naming the first born after the father or mother
or certain grandparents, etc....
nancy