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The very strict rule always respected in the catholic church all over Europe until around 1900 was that at the baptism a boy always got the first name (names) from his godfather, and a girl always the name(s) of the godmother. This could create a situation where several living siblings had exactly the same christian name and there was a need in daily life to differentiate. Later in life, there were no strict rule. Born as Joannes Petrus somebody married as Joannes and was buried as Petrus. - An other rule at least for north-western part of Europe was the following one: as far as the grand-parents were still alive, the father's father became the godfather of the oldest son and the mothers's mother the godmother of the oldest daugher. - An other rule for the time prior to 1800: the oldest child (surviving childhood) always inherited the family house, whether a boy or a son. - Prior to 1700-1750 the family names were 'house names'; each couple had only one name and the children got this name, but this was net always the father's birth name, because a son-in-law took the name of his wife, if she was the one inheriting the house from her parents. A big confusion started for decades when the authorities started to impose an other rule saying 1° that every person had to keep the same names for all his/her life and 2° that legitimate children always got the family name of their father. This led to a situation where double names where frequent (in the Parish registers sometiomes linked by the words 'alias, 'modo', 'vulgo', 'seu', 'sive', 'vel'). PZ
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