I’m not sure. The mother’s as well as the father’s names are the same. If they were all Maria’s it would be one thing but the name is Jacintha, not as common.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:35 PM Marcos Saturno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Leonor, > Could the men with the same name be first cousins? > I am also of Italian origin and apart from the names Saverio Saturno and > Andrea Saturno repeating 7 or eight generations (older son gets paternal > grandfather’s name), sometimes if a man had 3 or 4 sons they could all name > their first born son after their father resulting with 3 or 4 boys with the > same or very similar name (In Italy it’d be the same as maternal surnames > are not passed down as in Portugal). > I also have a branch in which no less than 5 boys, all first cousins, were > named Giovanni like grandpa, but since only one of the 5 siblings of the > previous generation were male, only 1 Giovanni had exactly the same name > as their grandfather. > I personally know of other 3 Italian first cousins with exactly the same > name and similar age. They are about 85 years old now. > Hope this helps > Happy hunting, > Marcos > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 19 Mar 2019, at 13:47, [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks Cheri. > > I actually started to go record by record a while back. I started because > I noticed that some of my ancestors were taking on their father's first > name as their last (Nicolau do Rego's sons became Joao do Rego Nicolau, > etc.). For now, what I am doing is going through the records and everyone > that fits in my tree goes in my tree, it doesn't matter if they are the > brother in law of the sister in law of the husband of my 2x GG (I have lots > of time). On occasion, those people suddenly become blood related. As you > may remember, I only started doing this in January, this way makes sense to > me now but it may cause chaos later on, please let me know if you see any > issues with doing this way. I have created a database for when I come upon > a record that I know should fit in my tree but doesn't yet. Looking at the > database, I have 1 João born to a Jacintho Bernardo and Jacintha Rosa in > 1869 and 1 João born to Jacintho Bernardo and Jacintha Rosa in 1877. I am > going to finish extracting birth records for 1897 and will start looking at > marriage records to see what I can find to make sense of this. > > You said "Kid #1 doesn't have maternal grandparents that match the other > kids." I don't think any of the maternal grandparents match. I have not > found a Maria #1 yet. > > > > > > > On Monday, 18 March 2019 15:38:44 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> While I know that it is very common for a couple to have multiple >> daughters with the same name, I have never come across more that one son >> with the same name, unless one died before the other was born. Below I have >> 3 couples where the father's name is João Bernardo, they are different >> couples (different wives). The paternal grandparents look to be the same. >> The paternal grandmother's name changes but the first name stays >> consistent, to make matters worse, two of the mothers seem to be sisters. >> Is having 3 sons with the same name normal? Counting the 3 Joãos, this >> couple would have had 8 kids, not enough to run out of names! >> >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1900-1905/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1900-1905_item1/P502.html >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1900-1905/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1900-1905_item1/P425.html >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1897-1899/SMG-LG-ROSARIO-B-1897-1899_item1/P90.html >> >> Leonor >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
