Junior / The Younger

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Junior / The Younger

Legg inn av Gjest » 30 jan 2006 15:37:31

In 15th-16th Century research I've come across several instances where
someone called either "Junior" or "the younger" is not a son, but a
younger brother. I even came across one where it seems to refer to a
cousin.

In your experience, how often is "junior" or "the younger" used for
someone other than a son?

joe

Re: Junior / The Younger

Legg inn av joe » 30 jan 2006 16:20:51

In your experience, how often is "junior" or "the younger" used for
someone other than a son?

Extremely often anytime before the 19th century.

Denis Beauregard

Re: Junior / The Younger

Legg inn av Denis Beauregard » 30 jan 2006 17:02:59

Le 30 Jan 2006 06:37:31 -0800, geraldrm@earthlink.net écrivait dans
soc.genealogy.medieval:

In 15th-16th Century research I've come across several instances where
someone called either "Junior" or "the younger" is not a son, but a
younger brother. I even came across one where it seems to refer to a
cousin.

In your experience, how often is "junior" or "the younger" used for
someone other than a son?

I have seen that for 2 unrelated priests, 19th century. Having
both the same name (I think it was Joseph Beauregard), they used
that sr/jr suffix to distinguish themselves.

So, in a general point of view, jr/the younger and equivalent in
other languages can be any persons and is probably not enough
alone to decide they designate brothers, father and son, cousins,
or any other relationship. You can probably use that as a basis
for a work hypothesis and if the older or senior is not viewable,
I would say this is a father/son relationship, but if you can see
both of them in the same area at the same time, then it can be
any relationship.

As for statistics, there is just not enough vital records of that
time to have them. I think most of material for that is a set
of guesses.


Denis

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gryphon801@aol.com

Re: Junior / The Younger

Legg inn av gryphon801@aol.com » 30 jan 2006 22:52:27

It can be found often when there wre two men in the same parish, or
even county - they may be father-son, older and younger brother,
uncle-nephew or even unrelated, just to show the age difference. Where
such a descriptiuon appears it is very important to take note of it.
It is not impossible to have two sons of the same name from the same
father, particularly where they are from different mothers.

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