Did assigned foundling surnames ever give hints to origins?

[lyn1982]

I posted this in my thread in main forum but its kinda burried inside there so I wanted to ask here too.

The surname Stripe - Strepe here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... FT?lang=en appears to be British. The assigned foundling surname Eppes - is also British. Could the person responsible for the naming have specifically chosen Giuseppe Eppes to hint at the British heritage - my DNA results do seem it could support 1 of his parents being British the other Sicilian.

[mmogno]

The surname 'Stirpe', which the mother has, is quite common in the Frosinone area. Why should it be British?
The surname Eppes was invented for a foundling and is the backwards spelling of the name Giuseppe. Again, I don't understand why it should be a British surname.

[darkerhorse]

The likeliest scenario for the first name Giuseppe is that it was given to your GGF by the hospital, informant, or city official, perhaps in reference to St. Joseph, as your GGF's birth occurred near Christmas.

However, it's also possible that his birth mother gave or requested the name Giuseppe, perhaps in reference to the father or one of the grandfathers.

You could search the family trees of you DNA matches for a father candidate named Giuseppe who was of child-bearing age in 1895. Since the baby was a foundling, on the young end of the age range the father could have been a teenager, perhaps as young as 13 (born in 1882). The old end of the age range is more difficult to judge - 30, 40, 50? As far as grandfather candidates, all you really can assume is that they had a son/daughter who was of child-bearing age in 1895, whatever age range you use. You also could filter Giuseppe for a birth or residential connection to Rome (or Sicily?).

The Giuseppe hypothesis is admittedly a longshot, but no crazier than trying to find a rascal named Nigel Eppes III gallivanting around on holiday in Rome in the mid-1890s.

[darkerhorse]

I suppose you could broaden your search to Giuseppe and Joseph.

[lyn1982]

The likeliest scenario for the first name Giuseppe is that it was given to your GGF by the hospital, informant, or city official, perhaps in reference to St. Joseph, as your GGF's birth occurred near Christmas.

However, it's also possible that his birth mother gave or requested the name Giuseppe, perhaps in reference to the father or one of the grandfathers.

You could search the family trees of you DNA matches for a father candidate named Giuseppe who was of child-bearing age in 1895. Since the baby was a foundling, on the young end of the age range the father could have been a teenager, perhaps as young as 13 (born in 1882). The old end of the age range is more difficult to judge - 30, 40, 50? As far as grandfather candidates, all you really can assume is that they had a son/daughter who was of child-bearing age in 1895, whatever age range you use. You also could filter Giuseppe for a birth or residential connection to Rome (or Sicily?).

The Giuseppe hypothesis is admittedly a longshot, but no crazier than trying to find a rascal named Nigel Eppes III gallivanting around on holiday in Rome in the mid-1890s.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I'm gonna focus on the surnames he was assigned to, though that is uncovering more bizarreness.

[darkerhorse]

Onotheragen

[lyn1982]

Onotheragen

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