Genealogy Chat

Have you ever come across a couple naming two of their children the same name, when neither of the children died?

Yes My maternal grandparents named their two youngest sons James.One was James Joseph & one James Herbert.Apparently both boys were called their second names on a day to day basis. I found them first on the 1881 census & thought it was an error having two boys called james one aged 4 ,the other aged 18 months. No idea why they called both boys the same name tho. Shirley

Yes, several times. They usually have different middle names though.:-) Elaine ;-)

Thanks you two! My brain has been going round in circles for days. One of mine is called William and the other William Samuel, so yes there is an addition of a middle name.

isnt it strange why they did that I have a Duncan Duncan and a Crawford Crawford no imagination at all.

Names are odd aren't they. You get lots of John and William and Thomas and the imaginative William Williams (I bet lots of you have him!) and then suddenly, from nowhere, there's an Octavius or a an Eldred! nell

My Dad's ancestors were dab hands at giving their children the same names. My Gt grandfather had 5 daughters...3 of them named Mary! They were known by their second names which is just as confusing as they had cousins with the same flipping names too! They certainly make it difficult for us don't they? Teresa

Have Elizabeth, Eliza and Ann Eliza - 3 sisters who all reached maturity. In another family, 2 brothers - Thomas and Thomas Henry.(Think Thomas Henry may have gone as Henry, although he's hard to pin down in census as he was a coachman and seems to have moved around) jay