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The thing is, there *aren't* any birth records from that time period. The only things that come close are parish records of baptisms, but the survival of those from the medieval period is extremely patchy, and the earlier you go the less likely they are to have survived. Most of what we know about naming traditions in the medieval period is from references to people in a wide range of other sources - guild registers, tax rolls, lists of land owners, diaries, letters and so on. There's no consistent lists to look up and it's difficult to find definite numbers for any name.

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This message was edited 8/13/2014, 10:57 AM