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Use of the terms Snr & Jnr

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Janet in Yorkshire

Janet in Yorkshire Report 3 Nov 2006 09:40

I have found it applies to ANY two men of the same name - had to plot quite complicated extended family trees to work out the relationship between them. Jay

sydenham

sydenham Report 3 Nov 2006 09:35

Thanks for the replies - so , as I thought , not so simple! Jan

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 2 Nov 2006 12:54

Yes - I have a very long run of Thomas Greens in the same village - 12 generations of them! They were variously referred to as Senior and Junior. Do be careful to note dates of death though - because then Junior becomes Senior! OC

Judith

Judith Report 2 Nov 2006 08:44

I have a family who seem to have formed half the population of their Cambridgeshire village in the 1700s and have come across snr and jnr and also 'the elder' and 'the younger' in the registers to distinguish not just between father and son but between other pairs of adult men with the same names, eg an uncle and nephew and two cousins. In a couple of cases there were more than two sharing the name and the vicar resorted to describing them by their parentage, or cross referencing to their baptism entries - he must have known I would need his help sorting them out for the family tree:-)

Georgina

Georgina Report 2 Nov 2006 08:23

Janice it is usually used when a father & son have the same first names, although who know's what went on in the 17th & 18th century. Georgina.

sydenham

sydenham Report 2 Nov 2006 08:18

Does anyone know whether the use of these terms indicate a father and son or could they be used in 17/18th century in small villages to simply distinguish between people? Jan