Two people who have the same great great grandfather are third cousins, second cousins, or first cousins, depending on how their descent runs for the great great grandfather.
Since the two people have different surnames one or both of them are descended from a daughter, granddaughter or great granddaughter of the great great grandfather, and one or both of those women followed the custom of giving her children her husband's surname.
If you notice, the above people have different surnames, so it's safe to assume they are not related.
No. Many people who are cousins to each other have different surnames, whether they are Japanese, British, Canadian or Indian.
In 1066 it was not the custom to have family surnames. However nicknames were used to differentiate people with the same Christian name. So we had Edward "The Confessor", Ethelred "The Unredy", William "The Bastard" and the king of England at the time, Harold "Godwin's son". After the Norman conquest surnames were made compulsory in England and many people used their nicknames as surnames, passing them on to their children. 400 years later the Welsh still did not have surnames so Welshman Henry VII's grandfather Owen ap Meredydd used his grandfather's Christian name of Tudor and called himself Owen Tudor.
The complete subject in the sentence is "grandfather," which is the noun performing the action of meeting many different people in his travels.
No, loads of people have the same surnames :)
met many different people in his travels
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Your parent and your grandfather's sister's child are first cousins. You and your grandfather's sister's grandchild are second cousins. There is a generation out of synch, so they would be second cousins once removed.
Whether Vaughn and Davis families are related depends entirely on which Vaughn family and which Davis family is being discussed. These are very common surnames and many people using the Vaughn surname are not related to each other, let alone to families using other surnames. The same for families using the Davis surname
Surnames are not popular or unpopular since they are inherited, not chosen.In the United States, the most common surnames are: Smith; Johnson; Williams; Brown; and Jones. Other countries will have different most common surnames. For example, in China it would be: Wang; Li; Zhang; Liu; and Chen.
Most surnames originated in Europe as the population grew and the need to distinguish between different people with the same Christian name grew. In England the adoption of a surname was made compulsory in the 13th century. Surnames fall in several categories, such as: Surnames based on where you came from such as Whittington, Washington, Woodside Surnames based on your job such as Butcher, Baker, Fletcher (arrow maker) Surnames based on your father's name such as Davidson, Davies, Price (ap Rhys), McDonald Surnames based on some special feature such as Russell (red-haired), Noble, Whitehead, Short
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