Dear Listers, I am of the impression that the families of the times say 1730 to 1910 were in the practise of using the same Christian over and over again until they got a babe of the name to survive!!! Anyone else discovered this practise please? I am guessing it was quite common? We have many such examples in our family tree, I,e, greats x 5 had 11 children 1 survived! and they had 5 goes at a Thomas and three of a Martha. Another family had three goes at a James, two of a Thomas and two Lydias. 5 out of the 11 of that lot survived! I think we must have had a good dose of syphilis somehow! Sincerely Anne Gentleman, NELSON NZ researching BUTLER, CHILVERS, JEFFERSON, DENNY/DENNEY, LEATHERS

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:03:16 +1200 Anne & Des Gentleman <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Anne, > Anyone else discovered this practise please? I am guessing it was > quite common? It was, yes. There are also cases of two *surviving* children in the same family having the same name. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent"

I can also recall a case posted some years back about a family who had five surviving Williams In reality, whilst they were baptised as William the family probably used a different name for each one I can't remember why they named all the five the same , it was in the 1700's if I remember rightly In answer to the original question, yes very common practice to name the next child the same as the first Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:03:16 +1200 > Anne & Des Gentleman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Anne, > >> Anyone else discovered this practise please? I am guessing it was >> quite common? > > It was, yes. There are also cases of two *surviving* children in the > same family having the same name. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent"

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:50:11 +0100 "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Nivard, > In reality, whilst they were baptised as William the family probably > used a different name for each one Almost certainly, yes. In a similar vein, friend's of our have father and son bath called Mark. Each knows when it's them being called by the wife/mother by the tone of her voice. Scary. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent"

Yep, I've seen the re-use of names in my tree a lot, trying to get one with the name to survive, usually it was the father/mother or grandparent name. I have also seen that when the first one dies, eg called James, then the next one will be for instance James John , James Samuel etc. It's like the parents did not want to erase the children that did not make it, but ensured that the name that the child simply had to have lived on. In my tree, I have seen five sons, all with the name Samuel, that died. Infant mortality must have been shocking and I pity those poor parents. Regards David On 1 June 2012 12:03, Anne & Des Gentleman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Listers, > I am of the impression that the families of the times say 1730 to 1910 > were in the practise of using the same Christian over and over again > until they got a babe of the name to survive!!! > Anyone else discovered this practise please? I am guessing it was > quite common? > We have many such examples in our family tree, I,e, greats x 5 had 11 > children 1 survived! and they had 5 goes at a Thomas and three of a > Martha. Another family had three goes at a James, two of a Thomas and > two Lydias. 5 out of the 11 of that lot survived! I think we must have > had a good dose of syphilis somehow! > Sincerely Anne Gentleman, NELSON NZ > researching BUTLER, CHILVERS, JEFFERSON, DENNY/DENNEY, LEATHERS > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Common in the North Meols / Southport area, where infant mortality was very high. My GG grandfather was his parent's 3rd attempt at Nathan. In another case, a distant cousin, a child named Jabez died a week after the birth of another son, who was then given the same name. BrianG On 01/06/2012 12:03, Anne & Des Gentleman wrote: > Dear Listers, > I am of the impression that the families of the times say 1730 to 1910 > were in the practise of using the same Christian over and over again > until they got a babe of the name to survive!!! > Anyone else discovered this practise please? I am guessing it was > quite common? > We have many such examples in our family tree, I,e, greats x 5 had 11 > children 1 survived! and they had 5 goes at a Thomas and three of a > Martha. Another family had three goes at a James, two of a Thomas and > two Lydias. 5 out of the 11 of that lot survived! I think we must have > had a good dose of syphilis somehow! > Sincerely Anne Gentleman, NELSON NZ > researching BUTLER, CHILVERS, JEFFERSON, DENNY/DENNEY, LEATHERS > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >