It may be that in the parish there were two people of the same name, not necessarily father and son, and the Minister wished to differentiate: he may have had no other way. Donald Massey ----- Original Message ----- : >I have another query that I have had problems with - the titles of senior >and junior. I always thought that one had to have a father with the same >name ie William in order to be called William Junior, however I seem to >have a lot of juniors and seniors that are related only as uncle and nephew >etc - is this possible, or have I been climbing up some wrong trees.

Thank you Donald, that sets my mind at rest, I was hoping it was something like that and not the American version. Cheers Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald Massey To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] The titles of Junior and Senior It may be that in the parish there were two people of the same name, not necessarily father and son, and the Minister wished to differentiate: he may have had no other way. Donald Massey ----- Original Message ----- : >I have another query that I have had problems with - the titles of senior >and junior. I always thought that one had to have a father with the same >name ie William in order to be called William Junior, however I seem to >have a lot of juniors and seniors that are related only as uncle and nephew >etc - is this possible, or have I been climbing up some wrong trees. ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== Bedfordshire at Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/

Whilst I haven't come across any uncle/nephew situations where they are described as senior/junior I have a couple of grandfather/grandson examples in parish registers where they are differentiated by Junior/Senior (also the same in a census where grandfather and grandson were both in Biggleswade workhouse) David Patricia Salter <ps015p6402@blueyonder.co.uk> a écrit : Thank you Donald, that sets my mind at rest, I was hoping it was something like that and not the American version. Cheers Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald Massey To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] The titles of Junior and Senior It may be that in the parish there were two people of the same name, not necessarily father and son, and the Minister wished to differentiate: he may have had no other way. Donald Massey ----- Original Message ----- : >I have another query that I have had problems with - the titles of senior >and junior. I always thought that one had to have a father with the same >name ie William in order to be called William Junior, however I seem to >have a lot of juniors and seniors that are related only as uncle and nephew >etc - is this possible, or have I been climbing up some wrong trees. ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== Bedfordshire at Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/ ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== To do a search of the Bedford Archives go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Enter Bedford in the box --------------------------------- Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international.Téléchargez la version beta.