--- "What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
Re: how many children did .. Just for the record...we called the children by their middle names and here are their names in full...
Frederick Roger
Richard Trevor
Sylvia Mavis
Claire Doreen
Herbert Brian
--- "What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
Re: how many children did .. I see your point...I have never quite got where the calling people by the middle name got started but apparently a lot of people did it back then...
Oh in one of those past-life parallels, my da's first name in both lives was James!
--- "What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
Re: how many children did .. At the turn of the century - to about WWII - it wasn't uncommon for several children in one family to have the same first name, so using your middle name was more common. Just look at my great-grandmother and her sisters (all born between 1890 and 1905)... they were all named Mary: Mary Alice, Mary Honoria, Mary Adelaide, and Mary Julia. It could get confusing... though I bet it was easy on their mother... just had to scream "Mary!" to get them.
And that's most interesting indeed!
MB
--- And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home. ~ Christopher Columbus.
--- "What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
past-life parallels, my da's first name in both lives was James! 
