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Offline landej

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Naming a child after a deceased older sibling
« on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:27 BST (UK) »
Has anyone discovered a situation in their past family history where a child is baptized with a particular name and then, sadly, dies and their parents have a subsequent child and give them the same first name? I think I have seen two instances of this recently but its hard to say for certain, it may just be two sets of parents with the same names. I was just wondering if anyone else had found a situation like that. It's always tragic when a child dies and infant mortality rates were so much worse for our ancestors, so it may have been more common in the past. If I was in that unhappy situation, I don't think I could do it - what do other people think?
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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:30 BST (UK) »
It was very common.  I have several examples in my family.

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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:30 BST (UK) »
Yes it seems to be very common in my family.

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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:36 BST (UK) »
I have been sidetracked assigning histories to these poor unfortunate children when I have misplaced or misinterpreted dates etc  :(

I , like many others , have many instances of double naming. Its more to ensure continuity of paternal/maternal names
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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:39 BST (UK) »
Very common as well in my family.


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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:44 BST (UK) »
Yes, I was looking for my grandmotherīs siblings. I knew they were a family of 10, but kept getting stuck at 8. It was not until I found and read the family headstone that the penny dropped and I realised two names were used twice.
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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:48 BST (UK) »
My husband has the same name as his older sibling who died 18 months before he was born aged just 9 months.He has a different middle name. He had Irish parents and it was a big tradition with them to do that,so there is a child named for each of the grandparents.
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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 17 May 15 09:59 BST (UK) »
Yes it was very common. It was a matter of pride to keep family names "alive," literally.
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Re: Naming a child after a decesed older sibling
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 17 May 15 10:08 BST (UK) »
I have a couple who named three of their daughters Rebecca.

Rebecca 1 died before she was a year old.
Rebecca 2, born months after Rebecca 1 died, lived to be 12.
Rebecca 3, born months after Rebecca 2 died, lived to become an adult.

Took me a while to unravel them all :)

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