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The person mentioned in this paper was probably his father's name-son, and might be, as Walpole conjectures, an engraver.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

But it is with the name-son and great-grandson of this sturdy old saint that we have chiefly to do to-night.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

But it is with the name-son and great-grandson of this sturdy old saint that we have chiefly to do to-night.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

My name-son, a bright and blue-eyed rogue, with flaxen hair, screams and laughs like an April morning; and the baby is that species of dough which is called a fine baby.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

This seems to have been refused; and, as the verses were lost for years, it was believed they were destroyed: a rough copy, however, is preserved, and is now in the safe keeping of the Earl's name-son, Major James Glencairn Burns.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Oakley no sooner heard these words pronounced, than he fell upon his knees, and seizing the knight’s hand, kissed it eagerly, crying, “God for ever bless your honour, I am your name-son, sure enough — but what of that?

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

Oakley no sooner heard these words pronounced, than he fell upon his knees, and seizing the knight's hand, kissed it eagerly, crying, "God for ever bless your honour, I am your name-son, sure enough -- but what of that?

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746