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Old 05-10-19, 22:18
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I came across the following in the Visitation of Norfolk 1563 (publication date 1895)
"Nicholas Mynne, Esq., was of Little Walsingham, who belonged to a malignant family who christened their sons Nicholas again and again with no other object than to puzzle genealogists".
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That's a riot.
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Lol!

I investigated a French family in the late 1700s. All the males were called Jean Paul, all the females Marie Claire.

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It doesn't seem to be in the book. Where did you find it?
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It's on the left hand page (213), bottom left hand corner -https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo01dashgoog/page/n235
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Opinions of the clearly frustrated Augustus Jessopp (1823 - 1914)
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Though what the author may have meant was the difficulty in distinguishing between father, son and possibly grandsons.
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It's on the left hand page (213), bottom left hand corner -https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo01dashgoog/page/n235
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Hilarious and I'm sure it is true for many families.
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My Grants have three daughters, two sons (or the other way round, not on my computer). Girls were all Isabel Gordon Grant, boys, Robert Gordon Grant. They all married Gordons.
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