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Article: answer to correspondents.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2003
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I was also reliably informed by a Yorkshire shepherd that the open moors and hillsides would sustain about four sheep to the acre.
Fred Lane, Aberdeen.
QUESTION Eminem is Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Tom Cruise is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. Does anyone know of a higher number of direct descendants with the same name?
THE highest number of direct descendants with the same name in England and Wales must have been Henry VIII, and in Scotland, James VI. Notable European examples would be Spain's Alfonso XIII, Denmark's Christian X, and who could forget France's Louis XVIII?
Billy Bass, Ivybridge, Devon.
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