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Originally Posted by alum
Technically that is correct that the everybody moves up a number when someone in the lineage dies. However, I knew a Thornton Waldo Burgess V who was the great-great-grandson of the children's author with the same name. The person I knew should have been III as both the great-great and the greatgrandfather were deceased but everybody kept their numerals to honor the original TWB.
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It may also be that *V* was given his "number" legally. I have relatives that have their "number" as part of their legal name. As such, it did not "go up" when their elders passed.