Very very MPSIMS, but you know, I feel like sharing
Cheez_Whia just sent to me a PDF of the family tree going back to the 17th century. I was advised I’d find something interesting on page 5. My great grandma x5 (b.1761) bears my married name! My married name is sorta but not ultra-common and my first name is Elizabeth, so it’s not entirely strange. But whoa, what a coincidence! I guess I should post in the “Guess the Doper’s Age” thread that I am, in fact, 246 years old. 
And even though I am thinking of the referenced tune, my married name isn’t representative of my husband’s lineage - my FiL was adopted by his mother’s second husband after husband #1 walked out on her. Ain’t family fun?
Anyone else their own grandma or -pa?
My family has been in the States since before they were the states. I am the 13th of my name in line. And I’m not a junior, III or anything like that. And my folks didn’t know about that until we went to the family graveyard.
Major Paintcharge was the last to fight in a war, and he was in the Civil War.
There were many Elizabeths and Sarahs (my grandmother and sister’s name) in the line, but to find my married name in there too was cool. 
Also that we can trace back to the Maryland colony. Woot!
My family came to this country in the early 1900s, leaving their peasant roots in Poland. All I know about the family before that is my great-great grandparents had the same last name before they married. Dunno if they were related, but I was told our last name was fairly common in that part of Poland - guess they were the Smiths of their area??
Anyway, I have no idea further back than that. And since all of those who were born in Poland are long gone, I wouldn’t know how to find out about anyone back down the line.
For the last six generations the first-born son in my family has had the same middle name. So my son’s middle name is the maiden name of his great-great-great-great-grandmother.
Same here, except there are only three generations, of which my son is the latest. This is the first time I’ve heard of any other family with this tradition.
My wife’s maiden name is the same as my great grandmother’s. It’s also not a particularly common name. It’s possible that if we go back far enough, we can find a common ancestor.
We came here when the potato crop failed. Not sure what happened before that, something about the High King’s daughter.
NajaHusband wants to continue a “tradition” in which all male children bear the same middle name. That means we might have a John Edward Lastname, a Sam Edward Lastname and a Mike Edward lastname.
Did I mention the tradition only includes him and his father’s generation? And that he’s the only male of his own generation? That means there’s a “tradition” of precisely one generation in which multiple male Lastnames bear a common middle name. Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
Well, traditions have gotta start somewhere, I suppose. My nephew has the same middle name as his dad. I dunno how my SiL is planning to name the one she’s brewing up, although I have suggested something entirely with the thought in mind of chapping her MiL’s ass.
I don’t know if I can ascribe “tradition” to the prevalence of Sarahs and Elizabeths in the tree, but my Mom named my sister and I for our grandmothers (we have different fathers also): So she got Sarah Jane and since my sister already got Grandma’s first name, I got her middle name, Elizabeth, and my other grandmother’s middle name, Ann.
Hehehe, it’s fun to know that I don’t have to worry about finding a common ancestor due to my FiL’s adoption. It’s like I’m actually the Mrs. P they’ve all been waiting for to bring it full circle…
Well, you know that Martha and Janis were not gonna go. Not on my watch.
Of course, you could tell everyone you’d been named for Janis Joplin.
Oooh I dodged a bullet on Martha. “Are you named after Martha Stewart?” Gag.
Thanks, Mom.
Too bad there’s not a snotty comment thread going, because my first thought on seeing this was, “Oh, an accident with a time warp and a contraceptive…”
Yeah, but then your kids would get webbed fingers, lose their teeth and start playing the banjo and porking farm animals. Just not worth it.
I’m the fourth in a series with the same given/surnames. My Dad is known by his middle name (to distinguish him from his father, but works for me too). A couple of earlier members of the family tree also had the same names (not surprising - my given names are probably the two most common English boy’s names) and one of Jack the Ripper’s victims had a father with the same name as me (possibly even related, as my Dad’s side of the family came from the same part of England).