From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2018-09-01 10:09:29 +0000, Jenny M Benson said:   
      
   > On 01-Sep-18 07:02 AM, cecilia wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Very early in my research I made the same basic mistake.  It never   
   > occurred to me that the same combination of 3 names might not be unique   
   > and the resources at my disposal at that time were limited.  It was   
   > only when I came to an apparent brother-sister marriage that I realised   
   > I had gone wrong!   
   >   
   > Of course, it turned out that 2 cousins were perpetuating family names   
   > and the "brother-sister marriage" was in fact the marriage of cousins.   
      
   The greatest confusion of that sort for me started with my great[5]   
   grandparents James and Margaret Cornish, who had nine sons and one   
   daughter, whom they named James, William Floyer, John Floyer, Charles,   
   Anthony, Philip, Gould Floyer, Hubert, George and Charlotte. So far so   
   good, but the eldest son James, my great[4] grandfather, had six sons   
   and one daughter, whom he named James, William Floyer, John Floyer,   
   Charles, Philip Gould, Hubert and Charlotte. I got awfully muddled by   
   that, but fortunately the record was clear.   
      
      
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