Boy

I'm quite sure it was a 'nickname;' one Charlie picked up from his beginning, since the Boy's mother died the night he was born and Charlie knew he was the last boy that he would have.

If it's of any interest, I wrote fanfic sequel to this movie when The Boy is 25, and he is still called Boy, but he says his real name is Martin, to be similar to Martha.

"Boy" was a nickname. I saw this at a dinner theatre several years ago and the playbill listed him as "Robert (The Boy) Anderson". I assume that Robert is his real name.

Donielle is quite correct- we are producing the musical "Shenandoah" and the script indeed calls the "boy" character Robert. such a beautiful story....

There were real historical characters who would have had personal names but are only known by their titles and family names/surnames, lie Mr. Jones, or Private Smith, or something like that, in the historical records which mentinthem. And would often take a lot of research to dig up the personal names of many of them.

And one title which some people have had was "boy". Warships and civilian ships used to have cabin boys. Boy was a rank in the Birtish and US navies for apprentice sailor boys. For example Boy First Class John Travers Cornwall of HMS Chester was fatally wounded at the Battle of Jutland aged 16 and awared a posthumous Victoria Cross. I have alist of 300 other boya sailors who died at Jutland, most when their ships exploded with almost no survivors.

The yungest sailors in the US Civil War to win the Medal of Honor included Cabin Boy John Anglin age 14, Third Class Boy George Hollat age 15, & Boy James Machon age 16.

The 19th century British army also had a rank of boy. The list of soldiers killed at the disastrous defeat at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 includes Boy Thomas Harrington, Boy Robert Richards, Boy James Gordon, Boy Joseph McEwan, and Boy James Gurney, from the 24th regiment of foot. There are 2 dead members of the Army Medical Department listed, Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd and Boy Green, his servant.-Obviously the creators of the causalty lists didnn't kneo Green's personal name. I don't if Green was known as "Boy Green" because he was enlisted in the army with the rank of boy, or if he was a civilian servant called "Boy Green" because he was too young to be called "Mr. Green".

It has been said that glory in war consists of being killed and having your name spelled wrong in the newspapers. In the few times that Green has been mentioned in the last 143 years it was merely as "Boy Green" without his personal name, and who knows when or if his personal name will ever be discovered.