My Line of Matthews

Since the 1700's there has been a Matthew every other generation in my Rea line.

• Matthew (b. 1730, d. 1794)
  
• Joseph (b. 1763, d. 1828)
  
• Matthew (b. 1793, d. 1873)
  
• Jeremiah (b. 1824, d. 1915)
  
• Matthew (b. , d. 1948)
  
• Earl (b. 1890, d. 1953)
  
• Matthew (b. 1917, d. 1991)
  
• Robert (b. 1942)
  
• Matthew (b. 1978)
  

As the last Matthew in the list is not inclined to have children, this pattern seems at an end. This alternating pattern matches the Quaker naming patterns in the Delaware Valley and possibly even earlier in the British Isles.