In a message dated 20/09/2007 19:46:00 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: what is odd is the there was a marriage in 1819 of John Robson and Jane Clavert, but would they have had a child 19 years later and called him John somehow I doubt it . Yes, I realise you will expect that it would have been one of their first children who would have been named after the father. However, perhaps that is what happened - but then he died, possibly when in his teens, and the next boy to be born was regarded as a "replacement" for the first one. Nineteen years is not too long for the span of a family. Geoff Nicholson