Genealogy frustrations.

[mrcakey]

EVERYONE in my family being called George, Robert, William, Thomas or occasionally Richard. (And Jennet or Elizabeth on the female side.) Who is who?!!!!!

[ThrelfallYorky]

I feel for you on that. On one line it's a mesh of siblings John, William, Thomas, and each of one seems to have given his eldest son the name of another, and the generations start to overlap.... and they all live in the same area and do similar jobs....
My female? Jennet, Ann(ie) Elizabeth or Isabel. similar practises.

[coombs]

Oh yes the endless Johns, James', Williams, Georges and Elizabeth's, Sarah's, Mary's and Anne's. They chuck the odd Stephen or Erasmus in for good measure, or Thirza's.

[BillyF]

Oh yes the endless Johns, James', Williams, Georges and Elizabeth's, Sarah's, Mary's and Anne's. They chuck the odd Stephen or Erasmus in for good measure, or Thirza's.

Oh my goodness yes. MIne are Williams, Georges and Thomas on my English side and Alexanders, James, Robert, Sarah and Mary on my Scottish side, though funnily enough there is a Fred who`s giving me a bit of a headache at the moment.

[frostyknight]

Yes! Thomas, William, James, John and for the females Ellen, Mary (or Mary-Anne), Catherine and Elizabeth in each generation and in each branch of every generation. Fun! Especially all the men named Thomas. So many of those.

[mckha489]

Entries like this one for Sheriff Hales

Nov 9 1641  Two were marryed beinge none of the parish of Sheriffe Hales    GRR

[softly softly]

Interesting posts. Mine is family who I have baptisms,births,census, marriage until old age and then vanish- no death records and it was not Corvid 19 that was their ending! Plus the number of times you know where they were living and "that part of census is missing".

John

[Isabel H]

Same here - people who vanish without trace. No records of death or emigration to be found, no missing person reports. It's like reading a book with the last pages missing!

[Gillg]

Illegitimate children with no father's name traceable.  In my case William Fair(e)y 1776, son of Sarah.  No Bastardy Bonds exist any longer for that time, no Parish Overseers' records for chasing up the father to pay maintenance, just an entry in the baptism register.  Not certain where and when mother Sarah was born, though I have narrowed it down to possibly a girl from a nearby village, but that's just a guess.  In the small village where William was baptised (Gt Catworth, Hunts) there is another family of the same name, but try as we may the researcher for that family and I can find no link.  Even Hunts Record Office couldn't help, so I'm stuck on that branch and William is my gt-gt-gt-grandfather.