From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 8/15/2020 6:15 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >    
   >    
   I am in the US and currently don't see that a lot.   
      
      
   However, I wish it were the practice to use social security numbers    
   instead on name. ;-)  I have one family that have five consequative    
   generations of John George Hirsch.  I have another family with seven    
   siblings named Mary; Mary Catharine, Mary Theresa, etc.   
      
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