From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   This is not really a question about British genealogy, as in Britain   
   suffixes like Jr. are far less common than in the USA. However, someone   
   here may know. There was a discussion recently in another group   
   (alt.usage.english) about how far the III, IV ... can go in practice. I   
   read somewhere that there was someone in an Austrian or German   
   aristocratic family whose suffix was  XV. Any pointers to who that is?   
   I'm not thinking of Kings, Popes etc., for whom they can go as high as   
   XXIII, but of families in which the suffixes are actually treated as   
   part of the full name.   
      
   Actually it would quite convenient if they _were_ used more in British   
   families. My paternal great-great-greatgrandfather was Ambrose Bowden;   
   his father was Ambrose Bowden, whose father was Ambrose Bowden, whose   
   father was Ambrose Bowden. One can of course add one's own suffixes   
   when compiling family records, but I'm thinking of cases where the   
   people concerned use(d) them as part of their names.   
      
      
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