Dear Karen, Yes this was most common, there are lots of instances in my family. Regards, Mavis Williams, Flintshire. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Davies" <bihinv@axionet.com> To: <ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: [[Hawks]] Families with children of same name > Hi List > I have a query about the naming of children. I have encountered a couple of instances where a couple is credited with 2 children of the same name and one where they actually had 2 sets (ie. William & John, twins - William & John later, a couple of years apart). My first inclination was that the first born had died. I then began to think that possibly the children were born to 2 sets of parents of the same name. Today I noticed in a posting by Gary Park that he had 2 Williams in his PARK family, the first having died young. Can anyone tell me, was this a common practice? > Regards > Karen Davies > Vancouver, Canada > Now Researching > in Lancashire: WHITWORTH > in Hawkesbury: WHITWORTH, HOPKINS, COOK, ?DAVIS? > in Oxenhall: HOPKINS, RICKETS, WOOD, ARNOLD > in Westbury-on-Trym: HOPKINS, ?DAVIS? > in Bristol: DAVIS, HINDER, DAWES, > in Channel Islands: KENDALL, BENGEFIELD (BENEFIELD), STONEMAN > in Middlesex (London) HUMAN > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >