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In case anyone may be interested, I have counted the most common names in the baptism register in the 1720s.  The ten most frequent for boys and girls are below - there is the odd Abigal, Adam or Agness of course, and even a Bryan or two, which surprised me a bit.  My impression was that Thomas very often had a father with the same name, but I have no stats on that.

John 79, Thomas 78;  William 46, James 34, Richard 31;  Henry 19, Robert 16, Joseph 11;  George & Edward 8.
Elizabeth & Mary 57;  Ellen 42, Anne 40, Jane 37, Margaret (Margrett) 33;  Hanna & Sarah 15, Alice 14, Catherine 10.

Are there any comparisons?

Henry Fisher Young was born in Liverpool in summer 1833.  In 1857 he married Mary Ann Prior and had three children between 1861 and 1867.  During that period the family moved to Manchester, where they appear in Crumpsall in the 1871 census.  Henry can't be found in 1881 (he is not on the electoral roll for that year), but the rest of the family is in Botanic Road, Wavertree (Liverpool).  The census entry is strange, as Mary Ann is both Head and Daughter (of Head) while the offspring are all 'grandchildren'.  I can't work out who the object of these relationships might be.

Henry died in 1889, and in 1891 Mary Ann has become Head, and her widowed mother is also present aged 91; she had been living in other parts of Lancashire before that.  Any suggestions?

EDIT  -  Henry's parents John and Elizabeth lived at Aubrey St, Everton and died in 1881 and 1889; Mary Ann's father G B Prior died in the 1830s.

Transcribing early Liverpool marriage records (~1710) I have one man described as a Tydewater.  Would that be a 'Tidewaiter' which appears in my 1932 Webster's as 'a customs officer who boards vessels and watches the landing of goods' ? - although that is said to be 'Hist. in U S'.

Just started transcribing marriage records for Liverpool parish 18th century - this one is from 1702.  I can imagine the recorder trying to make sense of a thick Irish accent, which he seems to have written phonetically.  Interestingly it doesn't look like either variety of Ulster accent, more the traditional Irish as imagined by the English 

[ for the uninitiated, I read this as 'Island Magee in the county of Antrim in the kingdom (!) of Ireland'.  It's just across the Irish Sea from Liverpool ]

Not long after his father died, my g-g-grandfather left the family farm near Ashburton in Devon, and took everyone across to Ireland, probably in 1854 when the farm was put up for sale (this was a few years after the famines and mass emigration, so there must have been plenty of farms vacant).  There had been seven children; the eldest (my g-g) married an Irish girl and apparently learnt the language.  He seems to have been the only one to settle - several of the others returned to Devon in the early 1880s.

I was wondering what route they might have taken to reach Midleton in eastern county Cork.  Cork itself is a major port and there are harbours at Youghal, Waterford and Dungarvan, where the one settler died in 1904.  But where to sail from?  Does anyone know what passages there were between the West Country and Ireland in the 1850s ?