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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common?
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:04:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <013401c04486$41b8a420$debd8ec6@johnson>

In message <013401c04486$41b8a420$>, Johnson <daveandjen
> writes
>Hi Hugh,
>
>Common I would think! In all my families anyway.

Not common, even in the 1860s - by which time, two forenames were more
usual, and three or four still researved for the rich.
>I have a Henry George
>Edward Ledgard BURTON who married Elizabeth Anne COXON and had a Herbert
>Edward Ledgard BURTON who was born abt 1889 at Greenwich.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

This thread:

• [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Hugh Wallis" <>
  • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Johnson" <>

    • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by Eve McLaughlin <>

      • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Roy Pearson" <>
        • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by Eve McLaughlin <>
          • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Roy Pearson" <>
          • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Roy Pearson" <>
    • [Lon] Wheelwright WALLIS by "Hugh Wallis" <>
  • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Kate Martinson" <>
  • [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by Eve McLaughlin <>
    • Re: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Kat" <>
    • RE: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common? by "Hugh Wallis" <>