I remember a Reader's Digest article where someone called all his sons John .I wonder what the Mum did when she wanted a word with one particular one Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark & Kerri Young" <younglands@eyreonline.com> To: <ENG-HUNTINGDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:23 AM Subject: Name Query;What do you think? > Hi all > If a child was born, (born 1800) would they name another by the same name even if the first was still alive? > Looking for your thoughts on the matter. > Kerri > South Australia > >

There is a German royal or princely family (Reuss) where all the sons are named Heinrich (Henry) and are numbered in each generation. Imagine being Heinrich XXX. In English parish records one usually can find the burial record for the first child of that name before the baptism of the second. That said, one ancestral family had an Elizabeth (1826), another Elizabeth (1829), and an Eliza (1830) baptised. Eliza is my great-grandmother, and I expected to find the burial records for both her sisters named Elizabeth. The first Elizabeth died in September 1828, but the second Elizabeth married in 1854, and died some time between the 1891 and 1901 census returns. ----- Original Message ----- From: A. Day To: ENG-HUNTINGDON-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Name Query;What do you think? I remember a Reader's Digest article where someone called all his sons John .I wonder what the Mum did when she wanted a word with one particular one Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark & Kerri Young" <younglands@eyreonline.com> To: <ENG-HUNTINGDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:23 AM Subject: Name Query;What do you think? > Hi all > If a child was born, (born 1800) would they name another by the same name even if the first was still alive? > Looking for your thoughts on the matter. > Kerri > South Australia