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At least three branches of my family are pre-revolution immigrants. Two are scots-irish and just have the surnames that still exist in Scotland (though maybe an
by waterlesscloud 13y ago
At least three branches of my family are pre-revolution immigrants. Two are scots-irish and just have the surnames that still exist in Scotland (though maybe anglicized over there way back, I don't actually know).
One is French Huguenot, though,and it's not so much anglicized as just misspelled. It certainly would have marked them as French, but I wonder how much of it is just chalked up to poor literacy on all sides.
- derekp7 13y agoThat's interesting -- my family name is from the French Huguenot also. There are a few different spellings -- from what I was told, there was a family fight a many generations ago, and 3 brothers each changed to a different spelling. From what I understand, this was somewhat common at the time, to change the family name spelling in order to distance oneself from the family.