(Stupid) Name Question - Genealogists' Forum

Kit · #1 14-10-18, 09:10

If a couple have 2 children called Hannah and Anna does that mean one died and then they had another child or could both be alive at the same time? They were born in the 1670s if that means anything.

kiterunner · #2 14-10-18, 09:48

Could be either.

Kit · #3 14-10-18, 10:07

I've finally found the registers on ancestry as opposed to transcriptions on FMP. I can't find a death for Hannah so it looks like they both were alive at the same time.

kiterunner · #4 14-10-18, 11:04

If Anna's baptism is in one of those Latin registers then she may have been an Ann(e).

Merry · #5 14-10-18, 13:51

I've got several families with an Ann and a Hannah who both lived to adulthood.

anne fraser · #6 17-10-18, 16:07

I had a family with a Lucy and a Lucilla. It took me ages to work out that they were different children as they never appeared together on the same census. One was visiting grandmother or at school.