At last the People search/family tree section has found its voice, some great stories I like Dades that would be some family reunion.
In my family if a child died as a baby the next child born of the same sex would be given the dead childs name, this really threw me until I realised what was happening, so I would come across two Elizabeths to the same parents, once you get into following the evidence that you realise what has happened, this happens lots of times over the generations.
Have people come across similar?



Have a look at this site
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/default.aspx

when you do a search for 1881 all people with my surname live mainly in one area Shropshire and Welsh Borders, in 1998 we are stiill in the same area with small pockets in Merseyside, Midlands and a small area of Lancashire.