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Wife is Sarah
name eldest daughter Sarah Amelia
she changes name at some point to Amelia
so 9 years after the original Sarah's birth
we name our youngest daughter.......



Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!


Sue

Oh, so not just my family that does that then!! ;-))))

Mary

Obviously...lol

I have plenty of duplicate names if they have lost a child but both are living!

Back to trawling for two names depending on her mood that day :-((

Sue

Sue,

Won't two Sarah's cause some confusion? Granted you say that your first daughter has chosen to be known as her middle name, Amelia.

As you also mention, this is more common if an earlier sibling had passed away. I know this is what happened in the earlier 20th century. I know that my gt grandmother gave birth to two girls with the same christian name, after the first child had passed in infancy.

I am sure, though, that both your girls will be individuals, although sharing a name!

Gailx

I don't think Sue meant that she had named two of her own daughters Sarah.

Or have I got it wrong?

I read it that Sue, was researching a rellie Sarah that had named two of her daughters Sarah...

she can stop moaning, I am going to swap her Sarahs for my Williams...gt... gt gt and gt gt gt ...plus nephews and uncles etc lol

xx

Ha Ha Sue I have John W*** and Jonathon W*** who were brothers both living and what do they both call 2 of their sons YUP John and Jonathon, both sets of cousins born within 2 yrs of each other and both in the same area. Nice of them !
Only way to sort them was 1 got married whilst the other still at home and the second lot thankfully one had a sister living with him after he married.

Sorry Sue.

Just read Rose's post, and realise that it's a friend you are asking for? Doh!

Don't know how that I missed it, but readind it again, you would hardly have a wife( called Sarah), if you are Sue.

Wishing you well

Gailx

Sorry Gail the use of 'we' was as in the Royal 'we'...lol my girls have different names although eldest has the middle name...........


Sarah.....lololol


If only these ancestors knew what grief they were giving us they would probably be laughing their knitted socks off :-))

Sue x

Just in case you lose track of Amelia, this may help...?

I have spent a while looking for an Amelia this afternoon, ....she and hubby flipped in and out of Wales on almost alternate census....then I lost her.

I searched for her young son and found him with his parents, but she had been mis transcribed as Cunelia

.....Nice to have a bit of variety of names.......

Gwyn

my grandfather and all his brothers given name was John but they all went as their middle name so grandad was Bill we had uncles Dave, Ed, Ben, Rand and Ron

Oh funny Gwyn...lol

I have spent ages correcting transcriptions! The best ones are my Welsh place names. If it starts with Ll then just pick a village the enumerator can spell and stick that in!!!

You'd be surprised how many times my gt,gt,gt,gt x grandpa moved around Lake Bala.

Sue

One of my lot has an Elizabeth and an Eliza who are siblings ... Drove me mad for a while they did!

Jill