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Title: Same First Name
Post by: bramhallbill on Monday 19 June 17 19:34 BST (UK)
Hi
Has anyone seen this kind of logic
Looks like Thomas Arnell b 18 Nov 1911 Boiler Maker & Thomas Robson Arnell b 23 June 1928 were brothers children of John T Arnell & Mary J Arnell (Robson)......I wonder if the informant got a thick ear when he got home. :-\ :-\
Bill B
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: groom on Monday 19 June 17 20:15 BST (UK)
Are you sure that the first one didn't die? It took me ages to realise that my great grandfather was named after his brother who died aged 2. I couldn't work out why his age was always out by 2 years until I found both baptisms and then a death for the first one.
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: giggsycat on Monday 19 June 17 20:21 BST (UK)
As per Groom's suggestion.

Deaths Mar 1927   
Arnell    Thomas    15    Gateshead    10a   1178

Giggsy
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: Jebber on Monday 19 June 17 20:30 BST (UK)
Another possibility, the secon birth could be to another couple. A Williliam Arnell married an Elizabeth Robson in  1918.
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: groom on Monday 19 June 17 20:33 BST (UK)
Quote from: giggsycat on Monday 19 June 17 20:21 BST (UK)
As per Groom's suggestion.

Deaths Mar 1927   
Arnell    Thomas    15    Gateshead    10a   1178

Giggsy

That would fit wouldn't it?
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: bramhallbill on Monday 19 June 17 20:42 BST (UK)
Norman Arnell 29 Nov 1919 & Thomas Robson Arnell were brothers. Norman was a lay preacher & is buried at St Albans Heworth. Shame there are no books with his photo in.
Cheers guys
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: bramhallbill on Tuesday 20 June 17 12:13 BST (UK)
Looks like
Thomas & Thomas Robson were brothers. Not checked yet but The older one was in a mining accident & they named 2nd one after him.
Cheers guys
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: groom on Tuesday 20 June 17 12:18 BST (UK)
Quote
I wonder if the informant got a thick ear when he got home. :-\ :-\

So he was blameless! Unlike my grandfather who was sent off to register my mother and her identical twin as Maud and Martha. He stopped off at a pub to wet their heads and decided he didn't like those names, so registered them as Joan and Vera. My grandmother wasn't happy but my mother was eternally grateful for that.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: bramhallbill on Tuesday 20 June 17 12:29 BST (UK)
love it!!
My wife had an Uncle X & when he was called up he produced his birth cert to see he was Uncle Y. Dad got names reversed & no one knew!!!!
Title: Re: Same First Name
Post by: paulinemackie on Tuesday 11 July 17 16:57 BST (UK)
My Father was given his dead brothers name too,Matthew Wigham born 1930,brother born 1919