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I've started blogging again after a hiatus of several years. I'd forgotten how time consuming it is - that was why I stopped before. Anyway, I updated yesterday: https://victoriaprescott.wordpress.com/

interesting :-)

Thank you!

I was going to write a blogpost about names in historical fiction, in particular about choosing character names when there was a relatively small pool of names in common use and nearly everyone was named after a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt. Nearly every man might have been called John, Thomas or William in real life, but it doesn't work in fiction.

Then I found I'd written almost that exact post in my old blog some years ago: http://theenglishhistorian.blogspot.c...

for several generations, the oldest son in our family was called Francis

Did the younger sons also call one of their sons Francis, after their father, so there were several cousins called Francis? I've come across that in real life - two families of cousins, all with the same names and similar ages, so it was impossible to tell which was which.

Not in our family, but only because they didn't get a chance As far back as we could trace there were no younger sons or alternatively they died in Flanders

I know one farming family near here where they use three male names George, John and William, and have done for well over a century, and yes, that extends into cousins as well.