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    1. Re: [Dyfed] LLOYD births IGI
    2. LC & BJ Kirkwood
    3. Dear Carol, I can't read my own writing...John Lloyd aged 24 in 1833 would have been born 1809...he may have been actually born 1810.....ages are always a little suspect. I have found instances too where the rector has written down the wrong name...knowing the family...he just confused the children. Sometimes they wrote up their records days after the event, and it is so frustrating to find a record with the first name blank. If you order the burial records for 1813-37 perhaps you could also have the family baptisms checked. In earlier times I have found two children with the same first name in one family.....not differentiated in any way in the father's Will, except that he named and numbered them in order of arrival....it was not an uncommon occurrence in early times, probably named after two different ancestors, maybe even from different sides of the family...... but I would imagine in the 1800's they were a little more thoughtful. Regards Bettye Kirkwood.

    10/17/2009 08:08:10