Hi Anne and other posters 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. Gerald Townsend Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Searching for Suffolk: Welham, Josselyn/Joslin, Green, Knights, Girt, Knock, Garwood, Downing, Grimwood, Snell, Clarke, Lambert, Wallage, Gould Message: 1 Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:03:16 +1200 From: Anne & Des Gentleman <[email protected]> Subject: [SFK-UK] REUSING CHRISTIAN NAMES To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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