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That they dread appearing on a new branch of their tree?
Mines Mary/Mary Ann, i have 34 of them and thats not including the various "Marys" that have married into the family, its almost impossible to match them to the correct spouse,as for finding a death i've given up.......
The other one is William, i have 36 of them.
My worst nightmare is to have a Wiiliam marry a Mary Ann and then give their children the same names, lol

Jean

I've got a Thomas that marries a Mary Ann if thats any help ......lol

William, Thomas, Mary Ann, Emma, Sarah etc. etc. etc. Cousins with the same name and this darn habit they had of naming a child after another child who has passed away. That's caused me enormous confusion.

S x

Cheers Amanda, thats another one off the christmas card list. lol.

Why did they name a child after a deceased sibling? (bit morbid for me) and yes, i have had that as well.

Think i'll open a rest home for confused geneologists, bookings taken in advance.................lol

Put my name down:-))

The best one is my William Williams whose son William Williams married Catherine Williams (different village so don't know if they're related). Catherine's parents are called Thomas Williams and Catherine Williams and they had a Thomas and William also. I gave up on them after awhile.

S x

Oooo Suemaid, we may be related. I have Williams in my tree too.

Wayne and Jason..............Please God never let those names be in my family tree;..............



Mea Culpa for those I have upset by naming the names I do not want in my tree....................


Nope!..yer can't get away with eliminating SUSAN from your tree in retribution for my outburst.....anyone knows that SUSAN is the only name to have :-)))))))))))))

WHAT!!!!! Run that past me again Sue..........
You can have the master suite!!!!!

I agree:-))

S x

Eh!

OMG!!! i've just found some Williams in my tree, but not a Susan PHEW!!!!!
Off to bed now before i get my head battered in.
Nite-Nite

Only special people have SUSANs in their tree......sleep well.....May all the Williams' in the world invade your dreams ,,,,,,,,:-)))))))))

I was nearly called Susan after the pig my parents had when they first got married!
We had a puppy called Susan when I was small as the pig was long gone!

I have a string of Williams and James and one of those married a Mary Ann and another an Ann and they had children called Mary and Ann lol Luckily our surname is not over common so it helps a bit.

Lizx

Hello, is it me your looking for?
Susan

James named after his dad and his surname was James.
William and Thomas are quite common in my tree.
Im having problems with surname's I have 2 sets of Powell's and Thorne's.
Unusual names I have come across are Abednego,Shadrach and Absalom .

when they name two sons one after the other as James and both are still living makes it difficult. they must have run out of names by them one was James Herbert and the other James Joseph . can only presume on a day to day basis they were called by their second names.
When I first came across them on the 1881 census on family search site i thought it was an error .this was in my early days of research and i wasnt sure what i was doing!!!

Just found a Susannah, does that count Sue? and 28 Thomas's (all with the same surname)
2 sets of Evans, 2 sets of Pritchards, not related.
Unusual christian names-Shadrach, Meshach,( Brothers) and Maureen Bega, i'm told Bega is the name of an Irish nun.
The one thing that has helped is, when the mothers maiden name was used as a second name for the children.
that did make them much easier to find.

Hi Georgygirl
I looked up the name's and Shadrach,Meshach and Abednego and its a bible story often referred to as the 3 young men

Hi Thorney,
We were taught the story of them at confirmation classes,they refused to worship a gold statue the king had built, king ordered them to be burned, but they walked out unscathed, the Lord was protecting them.
Cant believe i've remembered that story from all those years ago.......lol

Ha Ha I thought I heard it before and as I started reading i remembered it.
You have a better memory than me lol

Oh dear, i'm getting worried now, remembered that story but cant remember where i put my spare pair of glasses yesterday...................x