Not every baby was named immediately upon its arrival. For a variety of reasons, a couple may have waited to name their child. Sometimes it may have been to choose a name. Sometimes it may have been because they were not immediately able to have the child christened.

It was not usually because they had twins and only had one name which is one way to interpret this family’s enumeration from the 1870 census.

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