From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   Charles Ellson  wrote on 23 Aug 2020 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > I have my great-uncle's father in law, Septimus Ryott. His elder   
   > siblings all had "normal" names so it looks like they had run out of   
   > choices by the time he arrived. He had a younger sister called Cenete.   
      
   The classic Romans often ran out of original choices after two children,   
   so Tertius and Tertia were as common as infanticide.   
      
   Moreover then and there, an adopted child usually had a higher status than a   
   natural one.   
      
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