It wasn't just in the early 1800s. My father taught a Napoleon and Josephine Smith in Cheshire in the 1960s. Adrian Prince Sunshine Coast Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Firebird" <sparrer@gmail.com> To: <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] Unusual Christian names > Mike wrote: >> But can anyone explain why a whole family of males born c 1825 had >> the middle Christian names of Napoleon Bonaparte and their sister >> was Josephine!! > > Admirers of Napoleon and Josephine perhaps? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message