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From: Kevin and Marianne Murray <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] birth name
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 09:58:04 -0400


This also occurred with my paternal great-grandparents who were Welsh/English in
Pennsylvania/Ohio. They had an son Arthur who died 3 months after he was born, and
they named their next child Arthur. Infant/child mortality was much higher then so
rather than let a name pass, especially if it had some significance in the family,
they used the name for a subsequent child--just a guess.

Marianne

hobnail wrote:

> K DeFoster wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 98-04-06 21:46:13 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << In the case of my maternal grandfather, his parents had a son named
> > James (Imre after the father,) that died as a baby. But then strangely
> > enough, later they had a second son and also named him James. Same odd
> > thing ocurred with my maternal grandmother. The first baby named Suzannah
> > died, and the next female baby was also named Suzannah (my grandmother).
> > >>
> >
> > I've found it to be a very common practice in different ethnics groups of my
> > family. The Italians do it and so do the Scots. And it was a common practice
> > in early New England.
> >
> > Thanks for the info on naming practices. That's a new one to me.
> >
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Kathy McConnell DeFoster
> > Kailua, Hawaii........searching for BUZA from Budapest
>
> I have also found it to be a very common practice in my family who were
> Danube Swabians-Germans in Hungary.
>
> Janice Danks

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