General Chat

I didn't think the name Embleton would be so common - but I keep following leads which end up with a totally different name - but they come from the town of Embleton! and yes,every generation has a John and every John married Elizabeth, as well as having a mother, sister, cousin, daughter and niece named Elizabeth - and none of the Elizabeths seem to have had a surname.

David Williams born in Wales!! I haven't found anything out at all about him - not even any census records.

I have a slightly different problem to a common name - one branch of my tree bred like bloomin' rabbits, making what is a fairly uncommon name very common in one part of the country. They also tended to follow this naming convention for their offspring:

The first-born son was named after the father and the first-born daughter after the mother. Subsequent children were named after their parent's siblings, so cousins wound up with the same name born within a year or two of one another and all of this in a small part of Hertfordshire. Trying to separate the children into the correct families has proved troublesome at times, because I actually have two married couples in the same era with the same first names as well! (As well as three cousins called Walter, three called George, four called Mary, plus a pair of Ernests and Fredericks).

My G x 2 Grandfather had 23 children by two wives (I think he wore the first one out!) Two of his daughters were called Mary - I think they must have run out of names.

Ed

Agree with you there, Ed. I have 4 Samuel's all in a line, a handful of Williams, James, George's, all with the same surname, and you're right the daughters were given their mother's names too, so I'm up to my armpits in Florence, Mary and Phoebe's!

Makes sense of David Beckham's decision to give his kids wacky names like Romeo and Brooklyn now, dunnit?!

Sometimes it's just that there are two people of the same name baptised at the same place that stops me going further back. That's a pain