Plus, if literally everyone went by this pattern (if I'm reading it right) it would have caused some confusion; a third son, being named after his father, would have passed the same name on to both his first and third sons! Brian ________________________________________ From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gawne [gawne@cesmail.net] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 2:30 PM To: beara@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BEARA] naming patterns and possible clues to ancestry??? Mary Tyrrell <mary.tyrrell@yale.edu> writes: > And everyone didn't go by the "rules"!! Of course they didn't! They were Irish, after all. -- Bill ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message