On 23/01/2014 21:17, scjbwaugh@cox.net wrote: > side note - Something interesting came to my attention this past week. I was looking at some ancient wills from the Great Orphan Book and found that several testators had named two sons by the same name (both living and bequeathed). I presume that they were sons by different wives. https://archive.org/stream/notesorabstracts00wadlrich#page/n4/mode/1up Hi Jan, Not necessarily. I have several families where siblings routinely are given the same names, and *not* after the death of the first, either. HTH. Phil Orpington, but born in Leeds