Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Patton's grandfather left behind a namesake son, born in Charleston, Virginia ( now West Virginia ).

Sigismund was christened as the namesake of his mother's maternal grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, who had died in 1437.

Part of the confusion is the various attribution of the city's namesake as Władysław II the Exile, his grandfather Władysław I Herman, or Vladislav II of Bohemia.

Originally known as Prince Carl of Denmark ( namesake of his maternal grandfather the King of Norway etc.

His great-great-great-great grandfather William Forsyth ( 1737 – 1804 ) was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society and the namesake of the plant genus Forsythia.

He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some 200 years: his paternal grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, and his great-grandfather and namesake was Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis HaLevi.

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

Lane hails from a prominent Georgia family: his grandfather founded the largest bank in Georgia, and his uncle ( and namesake ) was the president of Citizens & Southern National Bank.

John Francis " Honey Fitz " Fitzgerald ( February 11, 1863 – October 2, 1950 ) was an American politician and the maternal grandfather of three prominent United States politicians — President John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( his namesake ) and Senators Robert Francis Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy.

: For his grandfather and namesake, see Lucius Licinius Lucullus.

His grandfather and namesake Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and his great-uncle were both governors of the province, and his father was the police chief.

# Henry I of Cyprus ( 1217 – 1253 ), namesake of his maternal grandfather, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.

# Henry I of Lusignan ( 1217 – 1253 ), namesake of his maternal grandfather, who became King of Cyprus upon his father's death in 1218, with his mother acting as regent.

His grandfather and namesake was a Minorcan descendant born in St. Augustine, Florida, who led the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps, 1874 – 1891, with the rank of brigadier general ; he was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and served in the American Civil War.

Mitchel's staunchly Catholic New York family had been founded by grandfather and namesake John Mitchel, an Ulster Presbyterian Young Irelander ( Irish nationalist supporter ) who became a renowned writer and leader in the Irish independence movement.

The Leigh Baronetcy, of Stoneleigh in the County of Warwick, had been created in 1611 for his grandfather and namesake Thomas Leigh.

Despite being a loving father and grandfather, grooming his own son, namesake " Little " Carmine Lupertazzi, by making him a capo in the crime family that bears his name, he remained foremost a ruthless mobster, making threats and ordering murders.

His namesake maternal grandfather was the third son of John II Komnenos and Piroska of Hungary.

He was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus and was the namesake of his late paternal great grandfather Pharnaces I of Pontus.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe, the namesake of Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, his grandfather ( for whom Coxe Hall is named ), designed the seal in 1895.

His namesake was his grandfather John Marshall Harlan, another associate justice who served from 1877 to 1911.

In other words, the name target takes the term namesake, as in " I was named after my grandfather.

By " for whom another is named ", Merriam-Webster's Dictionary allows the term namesake to be used in reference to the name source as in ," I was named after my grandfather.

Martin Chuzzlewit was raised by his grandfather and namesake.

* Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. ( 1782 – 1861 ), Unitarian pastor, son of The Old Judge, father of James Russell, and great-great grandfather of Robert Lowell

In a rare moment of cleverness, Spaulding Smails greets Danny Noonan as he arrives for the christening of The Flying Wasp, the boat belonging to Judge Elihu Smails ( Spaulding's grandfather ), with " Ahoy, polloi!

He was born at Morven, Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey into a political family ; his father Richard Stockton was a U. S. Senator and Representative, and his grandfather, Judge Richard Stockton was Attorney General for New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Edie's family later originated from Stockbridge, Massachusetts where her great-great-great grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick had settled after the American Revolution.

* Charles Russell Lowell, Sr., Unitarian pastor, son of The Old Judge, father of James Russell, and great-great grandfather of Robert Lowell

He studied law to qualify for the magistracy, and was appointed Judge in 1720 of the Presidial Court of Orléans, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.

Judge John Berrien ( 1711 – 1772 ) was a New Jersey supreme court justice, Princeton University trustee and grandfather (?

Fischer came from a prominent Afrikaner family ; his father was Percy Fischer, a Judge President of the Orange Free State, and his grandfather was Abraham Fischer, a prime minister of the Orange River Colony and later a member of the cabinet of the unified South Africa.

He is also the uncle of Ohio Chief Justice Frank Celebrezze, and Ohio Supreme Court Judge James Celebrezze, the great uncle of Ohio Appeals Court Judge Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze, the grandfather of Anthony J. Celebrezze III ( son of Anthony Jr .).

Palmer had inherited the land from his grandfather Michigan Territorial Judge James Witherell.

He is the great grandfather of Judge Charles Clark who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1969 to 1992 and was the chairman of the United States Judicial Conference.

His grandfather, Judge Sotero Remoquillo Laurel was a delegate to the Malolos Congress and Secretary of the Interior in the first Philippine Revolutionary government under President Emilio Aguinaldo.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

In the reign of his grandfather, John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests.

He chose not to pursue the revision of laws or development of commerce, preferring instead to preserve the legacy of his father Edward and grandfather John I.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

Heinz was the grandfather of H. J. Heinz II, great-grandfather of U. S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania in the United States and great-great grandfather of Henry John Heinz IV, Andre Thierstein Heinz and Christopher Drake Heinz.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

John Hanson was of English ancestry ; his grandfather, also named John, came to Charles County, Maryland, as an indentured servant around 1661.

From 1814 Keats had two bequests held in trust for him until his 21st birthday: £ 800 willed by his grandfather John Jennings ( about £ 34, 000 in today's money ) and a portion of his mother's legacy, £ 8000 ( about £ 340, 000 today ), to be equally divided between her living children.

A folktale told to John O ' Donovan by Shane O ' Dugan of Tory Island in 1835 recounts the birth of a grandson of Balor who grows up to kill his grandfather.

NBS Director Allen V. Astin is the father of actor John Astin and the grandfather of actor Sean Astin.

His maternal grandfather, John Sampson, was a Cornish miner from Penzance who also came to seek his fortune on the goldfields, in Ballarat.

Almost immediately his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, resigned his Lordship of Annandale to Robert's father, possibly to avoid having to swear fealty to John as a vassal lord.

In Rainbow Six, Patricia gave birth to a son, John Conor Chavez, making Clark a grandfather.

His father was John Herbert Porter, who together his grandfather, James ran James Porter & Son, the brewery in Burton upon Trent that bought Robinson & Sons brewery in Burton in 1889.

Charles was born to King John of Bohemia and Elisabeth of Bohemia in Prague as Wenceslaus ( Václav ), the name of his maternal grandfather Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia.

His maternal grandfather was the wealthy industrialist John Marshall ( 1765 – 1845 ).

* April 14 – John VII Palaiologos overthrows his grandfather, John V Palaiologos, as Byzantine Emperor.

The two leading competitors for the Scottish crown were Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale ( grandfather of the future King Robert the Bruce ) and John Balliol, Lord of Galloway.