From: stevenng5@sgibbs1.freeserve.co.uk   
      
   On 06/04/2019 12:41, Ian Goddard wrote:   
   >   
   > It can be difficult with far fewer than that.  One of my problems has   
   > been the editor of the 1st published volume of the Wakefield manorial   
   > rolls, William Paley Baildon.   
   >   
   > His birth registration lists Paley as a given name but was it intended   
   > to be a double barreled surname?   
      
   I have that problem with every single double barreled surname in my 19th   
   century Bedford study. Every Wade Gery, for example, might be given as   
   Wade Gery or just as Gery, depending on the whim of the clerk. Nobody   
   seemed to care. I don't believe that names like Paley were intended as   
   "pure" first names or surnames, more as something in between. (The same   
   also applies to the analogous construct with illegitimate children.)   
      
   Steven   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)