On 2012/06/02 19:46, Townsends wrote: > I have the same thing happening in my Suffolk Welham family. One has to > watch baptisms quite closely and try and get all family members to ensure > they are following same person. I had one male child who lived to be 12 and > then died and the next son was given his name and survived to an old age. If > I had not captured all of the family baptisms I could have mistakenly used > the first son's baptism as the one for the second son who was the survivor. You have WELHAMs. So do I! Are they from Hadleigh by any chance? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

Mike I also have WELHAMS in my tree. A jJames Welham b abt 1720 married Sarah Nunn b abt 1717. They married in 1741 in Haughley,Suffolk Also Nun Welham, Sarah, Susannah, James , Alice. Any connections Regards John On 2 June 2012 22:33, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012/06/02 19:46, Townsends wrote: > > > I have the same thing happening in my Suffolk Welham family. One has to > > watch baptisms quite closely and try and get all family members to ensure > > they are following same person. I had one male child who lived to be 12 > and > > then died and the next son was given his name and survived to an old > age. If > > I had not captured all of the family baptisms I could have mistakenly > used > > the first son's baptism as the one for the second son who was the > survivor. > > You have WELHAMs. So do I! Are they from Hadleigh by any chance? > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > > ------------------------------- > 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 >