Wasn't the boy's name Paddy?

I have always thought they started calling him Richard when they arrive at the island and he keeps calling "Richard", at the moment they get to his parents' house, but I'm not sure, I don't remember very well.. He can't be called Paddy because they couldn't know what his real name was... I hope I could help, but I haven't seen this movie for such a long time!

I'm pretty sure we're meant to assume that it was their father that found them. Therefore, with Richard & Em already being dead they had no way of knowing the baby's name was Paddy so the father just started calling him Richard, after the baby's father... the mans son.

When looking at the credits for this movie, there was a credit for someone named Lestrange, which happened to be the original Richard's last name (as well as his father's, of course). When the ship's surgeon wants to talk to the captain, you can see an old man in grey lounging in a chair on deck, possibly to give continuity to the story (he was searching for them in the previous story and found them, so logically he would still be on the boat). So it's quite possible that he is meant to be Arthur Lestrange, and that he told them the child's father's name, and they named the child after him (it is a long-standing tradition in many families, even today, to name their first-born son after his father or grandfather). In the second book, partway through, Arthur Lestrange tells a sailor, who had been calling the child Dick-Em, the only word he could say, that it was a combination of the child's parents' names.

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Yes, in the first film they did name him Paddy, but in the book, the boys original name was actually "Hannah". But also in books, he went around saying "Dick" and "Em", which is what Richard and Emmeline called themselves, so the sailor, Jim Kearney, called him Dick M. I cannot stress it enough, but please read the books!

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