"Jane Lyons" <jane_lyons2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20060123125408.22986.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com... >I have indexed the names of the Immediate Lessors and > Occupiers as listed in > the Griffiths Primary Valuation for Killabban Civil > Parish, in County Laois (Queen's/Leix) > Hello Jane. We have communicated some time ago. I also have the Griffths Valuation Index and have often wondered how do we know that for example, William Bolger listed at various townlands are one and the same person!. We know that it was common to use the naming pattern, so if we have a William Bolger born 1790/1800 and he has four sons, one named William who names his fist born son after his father, and the other sons do the same, we can have 5 (if not more) William Bolgers leasing/owning land in their own right by say 1852/5 or as late as 1864. I have no doubt that multiple records bearing the same name are for one person, but I just wonder about the possibility of the above. As always it is nice to browse your site. Regards. Mike. PS....Do you know if anyone has yet transcribed the names of all irishmen that fell during WW1, I remember someone asking about this a while back.