Family naming traditions were important to our ancestors, and the patterns that they create across the generations can be revealing. They can also be baffling, especially if you find several relations living in the same parish at the same time with an identical name. Brian Homewood has shown that it's perfectly possible to tease out these relationships and identify a mysterious forebear.
MY BRICK WALL
My 18th-century ancestors lived in the Weald of Kent. However, because they were Baptists, it was impossible to find their infant baptisms among parish registers,
