From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-04-10 11:39:53 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >  writes:   
   > []   
   >> In the 1950s my parents knew someone called Barbara, who was the   
   >> youngest of four sisters, called Faith, Hope, Charity and Barbara. By   
   >> the time they reached No. 4 her parents appear to have run out of   
   >> suitable names.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I have in my tree at least one Thirza/Thirzen, which I'm pretty sure   
   > means thirteenth. (She's the twelfth that I know of, but I could easily   
   > be unaware of one.) The other 11 (that I know of) are conventional   
   > names.   
   >   
   > (Not that this is anything new, of course: Quintus, Sextus, Septimus,   
   > and Octavia[n] - and variations - were not at all uncommon in Roman   
   > times.)   
      
   An ancestor of mine (Rev. Francis Wollaston, Archdeacon, F.R.S.) had 17   
   children, of whom the seventh and last son was called Henry Septimus   
   Hyde and the tenth and last daughter was called Louisa Decima Hyde (all   
   the 17 had Hyde as the last given name). I've sometimes wondered how   
   they knew that Henry would be the last son and Louisa would be the last   
   daughter.   
      
      
   > --   
   >   
   >   
   > (Where has the "treat northern Ireland differently" option gone?)   
   >   
   > Three- (or four-) way referendum, if we _have_ to have another one.   
   > --   
   > Petitions are still unfair.   
   > https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232770 255soft.uk #fairpetitions   
      
      
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