[RummyChick]

http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1865/V/general/72.pdf

I think you find that here.

1865
He would be dead by Obama’s birth

[penelopesire]

That doesn’t mean he didn’t have relatives named after him down the road. Who knows. I am just posting stuff I find out there.

[Plutarch]

http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1865/V/general/72.pdf I think you find that here.

1865. He would be dead by Obama’s birth.

Yeah, but the point is that in the British Empire there were people with the name of E.F. Lavender rattling about, despite there being an Earth Friendly Lavender handwash in the 21st Century. So, if there could be an E.F. Lavender signing documents in Australia in 1899, so too could there be and E.F. Lavender in Kenya in 1964.

[mojitojoe]

Son? grandsons? nephews?

[SeattleBruce]

I think you find that here.

1865
He would be dead by Obama’s birth
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Have you heard of sons and grandsons being named after their fathers and grandpas? :)