Genealogy Chat

Good thing GR allows us to type William or Mary or this site would collapse! LOL T x

ooooooh Lynne - and I though I had problems! I've got enough trouble just being me, without being related to me as well. Tina

Tina We must be related, lol! I have a Joseph Williams who marries a Mary and they have a Joseph Williams who marries an Elizabeth, and they imaginatively have a Mary and a William Williams. William Williams breaks the trend and names his son Charles. BUT cleverly he lives in the same small village as another William Williams with a son called Charles of about the same age. My William Williams changes his place of birth with every census from 1841-1901 and his son Charles is married in the village where the other Charles was baptised. BUT I have found that its the same in Wales. Except that for William substitute Thomas and for Mary you can alternate with Margaret. As for the Jewish side, all the women are called Esther or Julia and the men have names like Zalig, which are a) extremely common in the Jewish community and b) consistently misrecorded. AAAAHHHH! By contrast, the easiest line I've traced so far are my Gray lot, even though the men are nearly all called John or William. nell

My Mallets are mostly Thomases and Jonathans who married Mary Anns and had daughters called Ellen, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Ellen, until the tedium was suddenly broken when one of them called his daughter Obedience. And I'm still trying to work out whether four pre-1837 Mallets are siblings. According to IGI, their parents are John Mallet and Ann, James Mallet and Mary Anne, John Mallet and Mary Anne, and John Mallet and Marianne. Goodness knows whether these are four couples or all the same couple.

I have three generations of Donald McFarlane who each married a lady called Isabella. Of course, it being in Scotland, all three families promptly named their children.........you guessed it! Donald and Isabella!