George Foreman the boxer has called all his five boys George. Wikipedia States Foreman has 11 children, and each of his five sons is named George: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI. His four younger sons are distinguished from one another by the nicknames "Monk," "Big Wheel," "Red" and "Little Joey." Also of issue in his marriage are two daughters named Natalia and Leola. He also has three daughters from a separate relationship: Michi, Freeda and Georgetta. He also adopted a daughter, Isabella Brandie Lilja (Foreman), in 2009 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: 01 June 2012 12:50 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] REUSING CHRISTIAN NAMES 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" ------------------------------- 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