From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:09:13 -0400, knuttle   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 8/30/2018 11:14 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> I've just had an interesting case of mistaken identity.   
   [...]   
   >> There was only one problem -- a Canadian census showed Percy as having   
   >> a brother Alexander David ELLWOOD, but our Percy did not have such a   
   >> brother.   
   >>   
   >> Further investigation showed that there were TWO Percys, born about 7   
   >> months apart. The second Percy, with the brother Alexander, was born   
   >> in Leicester, son of John ELLWOOD and Emma Sarah WILLIAMS, who both   
   >> came from London, not Cheshire. They had several other children, as   
   >> did John's parents, Henry and Mary ELLWOOD of Southwark, born around   
   >> 1804 and 1806.   
      
      
   >I have also had a similar situation.   
   >   
   >While the distance was not involved there were two girls who born a   
   >couple miles and months apart.  After they married the did not stray far   
   >from the birthplace.  In early documents, one decided that she would go   
   >be her middle name and the other by her first name. In later documents   
   >they both went by their first name.[...]   
      
   In my confusing case I was chasing Leonard Arthur Vardon, and found   
   two - as far as I know, not connected, and I think I have all of "my"   
   Vardons from the late 16C to the present, thanks to my   
   great-great-great-uncle's research..   
      
   One (1905-1959) was buried in South Australia.   
      
   The other ("mine", 1887-1949) was born in UK (reg Tunbridge) and   
   buried in California.   
      
   Not all that close in age, but the name combination is uncommon, and   
   people lie about ages - it wasn't until I had information of both   
   burials that I could be reasnably confident that there were two of   
   them.   
      
   I use it as an object lesson for a cousin - that he should not assume   
   he has the same person because it is the same name.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)