Children in Tudor England
Not Just the Tudors
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The History of the Names of Children
I found it very interesting to read in your book about the naming of children. Can you tell me something about this process and also how it was changing over the course of this century? Yes, I have to do naming and it is very interesting and it's undergone periodic changes as an angusax and period,. There's a late medieval period when the names on the whole get down to a very small number. But actually that is itself a problem because there's a lot of evidence that grandparents chose names. That was their function of the christening to announce the name.
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