My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue make names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip.

I give Pirrip as my father's family name on the authority of his tombstone and sister—Mrs. Joe Gargery, married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first facies regarding what they were like, were