Genealogy Chat

Hi, I have found this all through my family tree particulary in the 1800s and 1700s. In fact I've even found girls with the feminine version of their dead brothers names!! Also, alot of the odd middle names are maiden names of grandmothers/mothers etc, can be useful when trying to trace women!! Cheers

I've had one of these where they added a middle name - Sarah died and they named the next little girl Sarah Ann

finnaly can confirm the death Deaths Sep 1882 Tyrer, Catharine Maud 1 W. Derby

It still happens now. We have only just found out this year that my husbands mother had a baby the year before my husband's birth. The baby only lived 12 hours (premature baby born at 7 months which probably would have lived today), and my husband was given the same name, as it was their grandfather's name. Kath. x

You would need to check that there is a death record for the first Catherine really.

louise yes,they would. my hubbys grt grandfather was the 3rd son called fred.he had 2 brothers that had died before he was born,both called fred lol susie

thanks for all the info i have a Catherine Maude b 1880 and a Kate 1883 (baptism confirm this) however kate appeares on 1891 & 1901 census where as catherine disapppeared then i found a marriage record for a Catherine Tyrer marring A Rimmer why do our families liek to confuse us?

I have several families who gave two children the same name, even though they both survived childhood. Names were passed down in those families and I guess they wanted to make sure that if one child died, the name would still be handed down.

on top of the naming of succesive infants after deceased siblings my family seems to engage in each generation mirroring the names of the previous ones - this can be helpful but when they have a commitment to 'leslie' down the generations and don't seem to mind if it refers to a male or a female it gets a bit tricky. on top of that the surnames are male and france - makes for some very confusing search results.

Yes, I have several instances of this on both sides of my family, with both boys and girls. The boys seem to have been given their father's name, which was handed on to the others. I've got a gt gt grandfather, William, who was the third child of that name born to his parents. nell

Hi my ancestors had three James in a row - the first two died. Someone on here recently mentioned that sometimes a child was named after the one who had died because country people thought it would cheat "Death" as he would assume it was the child he had taken already.

I did some parish reg lookups for someone and there were 2 instances of children with the same name. Presumeably the first died in both cases Alice

Hi Louise, Yes, very possibly. I hace several instances in my tree of this. Debbie

Hi Louise It was quite common in the 1800's to name a child after a deceased sibling. Not very helpful to us lot trying to find trace them though! Sam

would a child be called after their dead sibling in remembrace?