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After reading a post about getting mixed up with Mary's
I thought I would tot up how many in my tree... and then carried on with a few others..
422 marys
146 josephs
502 johns
318 elizss
180 sarahs
125 roberts
171 jane
279 ann and 41 annes
333 thomas's
ooooodles more for me to review.. sometime
its no wonder this is a difficult game ---
xin
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I feel your pain... and you can no doubt understand my feeling of absolute glee when I found a branch of the family who suddenly decided to call their eldest daughters Britannia..... made the line so much easier to find for a hundred years or so! ;D
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yes its great to have the odd Dorothy or something, just a little different.
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xin
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Yes their inspiration for names was limited, if they didn't hear a name during the sermon on Sunday, it didn't exist ::)
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My most commonly occurring male name is William, And the female is Anne. But my nightmare is Thomas Jones and Joseph Jones :-\
Carol
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My Heritage tells me that my most commonly occurring :
surnames are Jones, Edwards and Griffiths
male names are John, Thomas and Edward
female names are Elizabeth, Ann(e) and Mary
But I have a very basic tree on that site.
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I've always had difficulties with two particular names, Thomas McAughtrie and William McAughtrie. Down through the generations, big families, and they have religiously followed the name pattern for fathers and sons, lived in the same area, and usually either coal miners or Ag. Labs - and it's always been tricky to sort out which is my direct line, and which are cousins. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure I have them right now, (hope so anyway)! 😏😏
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I wonder how many have the same problem I have :-\
I have families who not only traditionally used the Scottish naming pattern (most of the time) but for some reason had a habit of calling more than 1 child the same name (not necessarilly after a previous one's death)!
I have a family of 5, 4 boys & 3 have the forename Donald although 1 has a middle name, none named after a previous death.
My g/mother named Maggy-Jane had 2 sisters named Margaret & 2 brothers named Donald, 1 had a middle name.
I have quite a few of the same (not necessarily direct lines) but it seems to have been the 'norm' well at least to them ::) ;D
Annie
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I've just checked my tree, and have 49 Named Mary! 👍
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I don't seem to have an oversupply of any one name, but do have groupings. Elizabeth is a recent one with myself, granddaughter, mother and great aunt having it as a middle name, from my great grandmother.
One of my great aunts in the 1920's had three daughters, Grace Margaret, June Marjorie and Marjorie Elizabeth. Yes her name was Margaret.
My problem came with my 5 times great grandfather, he was Samuel Harris and he had a son and grandson called Samuel Harris. To make life more difficult two of them married a Hester. On looking back I found that I had attributed a baptism to the wrong Samuel. He would have been 120 years old. Fortunately my line became maternal and moved away from the Samuels and Hester's, although the names kept popping up, but not in my direct line.
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In County Durham I have an overload of William's, Isabella's, Anne's and John's. Even less common names like Cuthbert seem to be popular up in Co Durham.
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In my husbands line, the names Thomas Waterhouse & Anne Waterhouse are very common -- often marrying cousins of that name
There is one particular family grouping where both sets of parents are Thomas & Anne Waterhouse and their children Thomas & Anne married each other. Guess what the next generation was called?
I always think that it must have caused confusion over the dinner table!
The Thomases and Annes usually all had a brother John too!
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I have 7 Euphemias from one family (3 generations) in one town in one census.
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Two of my main lines are from a village where Ellen outnumbers Mary by about 25%, and Ann(e)/Hannah outnumbers Mary by 50%. My lot seem to be nearly all Ellens.
An adjoining village has a lot of boys called Oliver, which is almost unheard of in the places around. I'm conviced that the place was Parliamentarian in the Civil War.
In my one name study, a small area near Wrexham has a paucity of given names. Virtually every child has parents John and Mary, to the point where I have worked out from the locations and timings that there are three "John & Mary" couples having children at the same time, and no siblings of any of the Johns appearing in the registers around then.