'No other object than to puzzle genealogists'

[Sussex Maid]

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".

[Janet]

:d :d :d

That's a riot.

[Olde Crone]

Lol!

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

OC

[kiterunner]

It doesn't seem to be in the book. :confused: Where did you find it?

[Sussex Maid]

It's on the left hand page (213), bottom left hand corner -https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo01dashgoog/page/n235

[Phoenix]

Opinions of the clearly frustrated Augustus Jessopp (1823 - 1914) :D

[Phoenix]

Though what the author may have meant was the difficulty in distinguishing between father, son and possibly grandsons.

[kiterunner]

It's on the left hand page (213), bottom left hand corner -https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo01dashgoog/page/n235

Thanks.

[Kit]

Hilarious and I'm sure it is true for many families.

[HarrysMum]

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.

[vita]

My lot have a long history of naming the eldest son Henry William. I got in a terrible

muddle when I first started, especially as Henry William 1 married three times.

Eventually someone rebelled & called their firstborn Earl - think I preferred Henry

William (!)