« Reply #74 on: Wednesday 15 November 23 14:27 GMT (UK) »
Such unusual names obviously make it easier to trace them, such as Lucretia Theodosia Arbuthnott, unless you find they had a namesake first cousin of similar age also called Lucretia Theodosia Arbuthnott.
China has 92 million people with the surname Wang, which is Chinese for King. So the Chinese and English words for king are quite similar. Imagine trying to trace an ancestor called Zhang Wang in Beijing in the 1800s.
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