Genealogy Chat

Nell ive found that out too !!!!!!!!!!! how weird that the names followed down the generations but ya know whats weirder my youngest is called Liam James I have so many James in my tree its unreal as well as William (tho Liam isnt short for william loL) my brother named his son Thomas and theres quite a lot of them my mums name is Mary and looking through the tree the furthest back all married Mary's but the wirdest thing is none of us had a clue about any of these rellies so makes ya wonder how these names keep getting handed down spookie

Eek stop it your scaring me now lmao so what ya saying is if im confused now god help me? lmao I have 143 people in my tree which im really proud of cus only started this tree in May (I know I started in 1999 but not really I did cus I got dads birth cert and adoption cert then but then had to stop) Dont seem a lot now when everyone says they have thousands in thier tree's boohoo lol. Denise of the north (sorry if I got ya name wrong xxxxx ) My Dodd family are from I aint got a clue im so sorry :( im kinda very stuck in the great wall of china on my nanna :( All I know of the Dodd is that my Nanna was Frances Mabel Dodd born 31 Oct 1912 she was born on Rose Street Nottingham her mum (my great nanna) was unmarried at the time her name was Ethel Dodd she worked as a domestic cook. I don't know how old she was when she had my nanna but I do know that my nanna Frances added her mums name Ethel onto the front of her own name throughout her life (to start with cus she wasnt old enough to get married) and she simply carried this on, only on her death did her true name come back. Sorry thats all I know about them :( Luv Angie xxxx

Maggie In the end, I drew stick-women in different colours - its the only way I can tell them apart! OC

OC I am already dizzy. What a nightmare!!

Now concentrate... James Holden marries Margaret Slater - bachelor and spinster. She dies. James Holden, widower, marries Mrs Margaret Slater,a widow. Mrs Margaret Slater, the widow, was born Margaret Holden. She married the brother of the first Margaret Slater. Mrs Margaret Slater, widow, dies. James Holden, widower for the second time, marries Margaret Holden, his second cousin. HER grandmother was Margaret Slater - but not any of the above Margaret Slaters. James Holden had children with all three of these women, some of whom already had children of their own. So there are three children named James Holden, three named Margaret Holden, two Annes, but one is Anne Slater Holden, except she never uses the Slater bit Shall I go on? OC

Yvonne Yes, I DO have Jones too. I have John Jones, whose son Evan Jones had a daughter, Margaret Jones who married an Evans! My father-in-law was the eldest of 7 children. Two of the daughters married men surname Rees who weren't related. One of them had a son called Lyn who was in church when the banns were called between Lyn Rees & Lynne Rees, neither of whom were connected to either of our Rees! I think there must have been a special Welsh tax on names as they used so few of them. The only interesting first name I've found in husband's tree is Isaiah. All the men are called John, Thomas or William with the odd Evan. The women are all Margaret, Mary or Jennet. Just to make it easy to trace them, they forget which COUNTY they were born in between censuses, never mind which parish! nell

First names that get repeated through the generations are a confusing thing too. I have a John Gray whose children were Mary, William, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Robert, Samuel and James. Eldest son William married a Mary and they had children called William, Mary, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Samuel and Robert. This pattern is repeated with other generations and siblings. I also have two of the Robert Grays marrying an Anne, and two Samuels marrying Elizabeths! Fortunately two daughters married men with unusual surnames, and then blow me down, one of the daughter's sons married the other daughter's daughter (ie cousins married). I got quite excited when I found Octavian Gray, but of course he is illegitimate and I have no idea where the mother (Elizabeth) got his name from. He certainly wasn't her 8th child!!! nell

Just be thankful you don't have any ancestors from the Lake District hamlet of Watendlath - in the 1950s it consisted of the extended family Tyson. J

Sorry to butt in! Nell - I can't believe you haven't got any Jones' yet!!! Would you like to borrow some? Yvonne

Yes it's mine for sure. It would have been my Surname if 6th ggparents had married earlier. Lol

Evening Gramps, Is the first name on your list a real one lol, I have no names as good as that one. lol

Just my direct ancestors are From the North of England Cockbone, Weatherald, Nelson, Lowson, Caygill, Clarkson, Guy, Dinsdale, Cock, Tyson, Adamson, Pearson, Heron, Carr, Carpenter, Clement, Davison, Taylor, Close, Rushforth From Oxfordshire Freeman, Harris, Randall, Leech, Plant, Darby, Truby, Busby, Peerman, Cherry, Brown, Templer, Holloway, Bottrell, Parker, Hinson, Bayliss, From the Isle of Wight Downer, Burt, Rayner, Godsell, Payne, Gattrell, Jacob, Joliffe From the South East (mainly Sussex/Kent) and London Langley, Sotcher, Hurst, Shelle, Court, Mant, Knight, Stringer, Steele, Haddox, Havens, Barton, Whitby, Tickner, Williams, Alchorne, Baker , West, Phillips, Shadwell,Branch, Johnson, Bateman, Jessop, Scriven, Monk, Medhurst, Quinnell, Mitchell, Rye, Dunn And from Wiltshire Whittle And I think there are still a few more I haven't put on this list yet.

I get very confused Angela, but it doesn't take much to confuse me. I have Gibsons that marry Parks...Fothergills that marry Parks.....Parks that marry Gibsons. they were all farmers in the same area of Westmorland......talk about keeping it in the family......oh..and they all have the same first names. Jean

I don't wish to worry you, Angela, but I have 1,063 different surnames on my tree ........and I'm sure others will have more than that!!! lol Merry

Think of me, my 8yr nephew is very interested and wants his tree done, unfortunately his mother is my half sister, so only half my tree is any use, and then there's his fathers side ...... how many names is that!!! Mavis

Hi Angie, Sorry to go off course but where does your Dodd family come from. Thanks Denise.

phew thank god it aint just me lol, I didnt even realise it'd get this confusing (even more confusing to me anyway is my 2 great great grandads ones called Arthur Hooton ones called Arthur Linacre ones from nottingham ones from yorshire im always getting the 2 confused lol) Luv Angie xxx

Hmmmmmmm........thanks Judith! Mine are from Oxfordshire!...... Merry

Hi Merry, They started in Birdbrook, Essex in the 1700s then moved to Cowlinge in Suffolk

Husband's Welsh lot have half the surnames of the English side - there are so many Williams, Thomas and Evans! nell