Has anyone seen children named numerically by birth order?
For some time I have been fascinated by the first name of the father-in-law of my 2nd great-uncle. His name was Ogdoos Starbuck. I finally looked up the name/ word origin, it means the eighth, related to the ancient Greek word okto, and other ancient languages.
Next step was to look for other children in the family, it turns out that he was the eighth child in a family of 9 children, his older brother named Septimus was the seventh child in the family and Septimus is Latin for seven.
I have not added the other family members yet.
The other children in the family were in birth order Maria, Thomas, John, William, Joseph, Henry and the last and ninth child named George. Perhaps their parents John and Ann ran out of ideas for naming their children?
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