My grandfather was born Edmund Hiram Garlick in 1872. I'm assuming he did not like his name. It is easy to come to this conclusion, because he eventually began going by Edward H. Garlick.
As a young boy he was called Eddie and then as he got older was referred to as "Ed". The switch from Edmund to Edward was not a dramatic change. I never knew his name to be anything but Edward. But he was 73 by the time I came on the scene and had gone by Edward for decades by then.
In the early 1940's my Uncle Henry, along with some of his brothers made the leap from "Garlick" to "Garlock". The rest of the family followed suit--although my birth certificate (1945) has my name as "Garlick".
I can't help but wonder if my grandfather changing his first name was more a part of becoming "a new creature in Christ" However, I shouldn't surmise--since I never discussed it with him. It may have been simply that he preferred the name Edward to Edmund. He actually evolved into using his initials: E.H.
So, while the official birth records in Ellenburg, New York list him as Edmund Hiram Garlick...he is E.H. or Edward H. Garlock in the book "Generations".
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