What’s in a Name?

• My latest article on why our ancestors named their children the way they did, will be out in July 2025’s edition of the online Discover Your Ancestors periodical !
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War Memorial to children killed by German bombs which fell on Upper North Street School, Poplar, London, 1917. This shows the typical simple names for children favoured by most families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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