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From: "Hugh Wallis" <>
Subject: RE: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common?
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:43:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <9KPJUmAL7gA6Ew3V@varneys.demon.co.uk>


Thanks Eve

Still need to make the connection between Louisa Mary Bonny and the Vosper
Thornycroft PLC outfit but family lore does have it that there is one. Your
comments are most helpful (as always - I knew I would get YOU to reply if I
posted it to the London list <VBG>)

Hugh

-----Original Message-----
From: Eve McLaughlin [mailto:]
Sent: November 2, 2000 20:03
To:
Subject: [Lon] When did multiple christian names start to be common?




While on the hunt for my Louisa Mary Bonny VOSPER (prob born before 1840) I
encountered a family (via the IGI) almost all of whom had multiple christian
names.

James and Sarah VOSPER's children were all christened Holy Trinity, Gosport,
Hants as follows:

Emma Sophia - 17 Nov 1797
Louisa Lavinia - 16 Mar 1800
Frederick Bassett Jones Parker - 24 May 1802
Eliza Leonora Thompson - 2 Jan 1805
Charles John - 29 Dec 1807
James Henry Alfred - 12 Jul 1808
Selina - 9 May 1810 - (had they got tired of thinking up names?)
Louisa Philippa - 27 Sep 1811 -- oops - looks like the older Louisa may
have died - sad

so early, you have probably got an up-market family there, and, given
the area, perhaps a naval one. Check if he is a naval officer -though,
come to think of it, the children are a bit too regular for long
voyages. (and the two in Dec 1807 and july 1808 are going it a bit, so
was CJ really 1806? Check for a marriage by licence, and also wills of
the family - should be around on this level.

I

--
Eve McLaughlin

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


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