Surnames

[Élistariel]

I suggest we make lists of our surnames, and our ancestors/decendants surnames, as a sort of mini-genealogy forum thingy. The 'professionals' aren't always practical. I love researching my family, despite how little I've found. I also can't afford to pay for some subscription. I know this is a longshot in the genealogy since, but names are cool, so why not?
Mine: (direct ancestors only) - in no particular order...
Ferguson
Smith
Dove
Beam
Julian
Adams
Tally or Talley
Nickles
Russell

[Azure]

Stewart
Fendley
Medlin
Littleton
Emerson
Moss
Webb
Prillaman
Saul
Hillhouse
Angel
Morton
Shedd

[Thistle]

Hamilton
Greene
King
Beatty
Benz
Cone
Woodruff
Clark
Tyler
Colt
Thornhill

[Scarlettvixen]

Masters
Flower
Clissold
Leitch
Sutherland
McBeth

[shnen]

I don't know what my last name should REALLY be on my dad's side... my grandfather was adopted and the place that held the records burnt down in the 50's...

but my moms side...

yost
(thats all I got)

[Danustouch]

Hislop (variants Heaslip, Hyslop, Heslop, Hayslip)
Torrens (Torrence, Torrance, Torrins)
Mercer
Levingston
Hall
Beckerle
Bartram
Burhans (Burhance)
McCauley (MacCauley, MacCaulay, McCaulay)
Hawthorne

(names in parenthesis, are variants on the spellings in these names)

There are more names in my line, I just cannot recall them all now.

[Flaire-FireStar]

I can't go very far with this.... But:

Craig
Henderson
Cook
Simpson

[WtchyChick13]

Flaire, you're a SIMPSON???? That explains sooooooooo much!!!



(So sorry, couldn't resist!) :lol: :lol: :lol:

[MammaStar]

Hey flaire! we're related! :lol: (probably not, but my Grandma's last name is Simpson)

*looks at WtchyChick QUIET YOU!* :lol:

[Saphra]

Pierce
Sheline (spelled wrong)
Sheley
Gauwitz

That's as far back as I can go cuz I don't know much about my dad's side of the family..... And I really havn't asked to many questions.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Originally posted by WtchyChick13
Flaire, you're a SIMPSON???? That explains sooooooooo much!!!



(So sorry, couldn't resist!) :lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: It's the donuts.... ;)


Ldy~ I'd laugh if we were.... :rotfl:

[D Witch]

I'll play! My Grandma has been doing ours for a few years...

Harvey (England)
Kirk (Scotland)
Miller
Naught (formerly MacNaughton, from Scotland)
Gholson
Carlin
Norris (Ireland)
Chambers
Stephens
Vernon
Rohleder (Bavaria)
Bartholomew (Germany)
Chambers
Louvina (Canada)
McCann
Aitken (Scotland)

That's all from my Dad's side, as my Mom was adopted...

[Cinnamon Girl]

For those of you interested, Danustouch has posted a great primer for starting your geneology research:

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?threadid=22510

That's down in the History room, for those who don't often venture down there. ;)

[WynterWynd]

Santorum
Wageman
Uhl
O'Camb
Thats my family

Johnson
Lindsey
Willis
Melot
Then the names go into the Potowatami Indian tribe
This is my hubbys side
There are more, when I find them, I'll edit!!

[StormChaser]

Originally posted by Maren Themah
Dove

i'm wondering where you got yours.. thats my family name *my native american last name*

Dove
Cataldo
Shubert\t
Mahann
Campbell

[Amethyst Rose]

I've always wanted to figure out my geneology, but no one remembers enough about my family's past.

Here's what I've got:

McLachlan (way too many spelling variations to list)
Wagner
Ratell

Huh...thought I had more than that, but I guess not.

[morgainne]

Here's mine

Glotzbach
Merrill
Carr
Dallas
Treadwell

And an Irish one I can't remember at the moment

[MidnightSun]

I'll go with the ones I can think of right off the top of my head:
Warner
Phillips
Harrison
Yax
Pawley
Babcock
Nelson

My dad's real fathers name was Overby..I haven't a clue about that side of the family at all.

[Élistariel]

Originally posted by StormChaser
i'm wondering where you got yours.. thats my family name *my native american last name*

Dove
Cataldo
Shubert\t
Mahann
Campbell

From one of my great grandmothers. Littie Mae Dove often mistakenly called Lottie. She didn't have a birth certificate. All I know about her is how she got her name, her bday was May 28, she married a James Parker Smith, and had a lot of kids. She was from Georgia. The Smiths of my family are Italian, Indian, Scottish and English. Dark haired people. Dove would be included in that. So, it could be native american Dove. I can't really research it.

[Kaylara]

Well lets see...
Collins

Harakal - mom's dad
Toth - mom's dad's mom

Krulan - mom's mom
Bjorklund - Mom's mom's mom
McCreary - Mom's mom's dad

Dad's original last name was Martin,
He was adopted by his real father after my grandmother divorced her first husband whom she was cheating on with my grandfather.

Kuhn - Dad's mom

[Kaylara]

Hey Danus... I know someone with the last name Burhans... Maybe you two are distantly related.

[Danustouch]

Cool Kay...My ancestors name was Phoebe Burhans. Married a William McCauley, and then after McCauley died at sea (merchant seaman), she married a Willis J. Warner. That would make her Phoebe Burhans McCauley Warner...I suppose :) Actually, that branch is the hardest to trace. Phoebe supposedly was of Native American and German Stock (as far as I know). She was sold into marriage when she was 9 years old, to a trapper. This was her first husband, supposedly..Not McCauley...I've don't have the record with me about the name of her first husband, unless Burhans was actually it...and Phoebe had another last name???? Need to consult my records. Since she was sold into marriage so young, and being of half native american descent, (Schaticoke/Mohegan/Mohawk are the three tribes we suspect, being all from the area from which she came.)She was illiterate. On my Grandmothers birth certificate, there is a witness who signed in her place. All my Great Grandmother signed was an X in the spot for her signature. MY grandmother insists that Phoebe was a Medicine Woman for the Schaticoke Tribe, in Kent, CT, but again, this is entire unproveable, as of yet. And that she also brewed Moonshine. This being the case, she avoided all government census'. And with being illiterate, signed as few documents as possible. She didn't speak of her upbringing, being that it was obviosly one of poverty and pain, so...basically, our information for her branch, died with her. :(

[Danustouch]

OH ...incidentally, the reason why the three native american tribes we suspect? She supposedly had "Family" in Upper NY state whom she visited (according to my grandmothers memory), She made frequent trips to the Schaticoke Reservation, even lived in Kent, and in Redding CT for a while, but supposedly, was born in Duchess County, NY. Schaticoke is quite probably an offshoot of Mohegan anyway. And They are both Tribes which are native to that part of NY and CT.

Perhaps if the Burhans you know, are from any of these areas.... there may be a connection.

[Élistariel]

My mother just mailed me a photo of my Dove ancestor's tombstone. I spelled her name wrong. It's actually spelled
Lity May Dove. "Lighty May" Say it in the most redneck way possible, and that was her name.
:shaker: I'm decended from a line of rednecks! :shaker:
rednecks who couldn't spell worth a darn.

[DragonDawn]

I just started doing some reasearch and was lucky enough to find info one one line all the way back to Scotland.

here are my family names:
Howard
O'barr
Castelberry
Lowe
Norris
Flowers
Brewer
Bettis
Spruiell (Spruell, Sprewell, Spruill, etc.)
Brown
Winchester
Carmichael
Wood
Logan
Smith
Jacobs
Laro (theres a ton of different spellings)
Nunn
Moses

[Rævyn Cigány]

Beck
Larocque
Lakatos
Jolicoeur
Gaboury
Gray
Legros
Miller
Huppé

[Danustouch]

DragonDawn.....

I know someone with the last name Flowers. I think that may be the part of her heritage that she knows the least about, but I'll ask her what she knows/remembers, and see if you can find a connection.

[Thistle]

Aack. I forgot my own maiden name. Gridley. This is an Anglicized version of de Grelly. Albert de Grelly was one of William the Conquerer's men who invaded England in 1066. The Gridley's were the barons of Manchester at one time. On the other hand, I don't know what part of Germany my grandmother (Gabriella Johanna Benz) came from. My dad asked her to tell him about her life in Germany, and she said "I'm an American now and so are you, and don't you ever forget it." Makes me really curious why she felt that way, both Dad and Gramma are gone now, and there's no one else to ask.

[DragonDawn]

I don't have much on the side of my family with the Flowers. Actualy I'm having some problems. Aparently she married 2 guys and I'm having trouble sorting which one had which son and so forth. Doing this research has been fun for me. Its gotten me out of a deep funk that i was in. Its also been interesting. I found out that 2 guys in my family, it would be like the daddy and the son, were both murdered. I've also come across alot of wills. I've been doing research on free sites only.

[Danustouch]

Dragon Dawn, for some hints and pointers, check out the thread I posted for hints for geneologist research in the History forum. In the mean time, so far, what do you have as far as locations? I'm not SURE...but I think the Flowers family that I know of, came from the South originally. I'll check into it though.

[Scarlettvixen]

DT was the Flower surname originally from Scotland?
My Nan was a Flower, they emigrated from Edinburgh in the early 1900's to Australia

[Bellefoy]

We haven't been able to find out too much information on my family, but here's what I can think of off the top of my head.

Mother's side:

Wolf
Gilman
Lamb
Van Rance

Father's side:

Foy
Hartman
Sutliff

I have some more information somewhere. This is inspiring me to find it. :-)

[Rævyn Cigány]

Originally posted by Bellefoy
Mother's side:

Wolf
Gilman
Lamb
Van Rance



Did anyone else pick up on Bellefoy's wonderful family trait? The Wolf really DOES lie down with the Lamb....ROFL (yeah yeah I know, it's the lion and the lamb, but it was cute!!!)

B*B
Rae )O(

[Badgerval]

Originally posted by Scarlettvixen
DT was the Flower surname originally from Scotland?
My Nan was a Flower, they emigrated from Edinburgh in the early 1900's to Australia

In the south west of england, where I am, there used to be a local brewery called 'Flowers Ales' (and the ceramic plaques are still visible on a couple of buildings that used to be 'flowers' pubs.)

My family names:
France
Parker
Clarke
Rose

[stormyray]

Foster
Roberts
O'Dollie
Williams



My mother is going to send me the rest when she finds it

[Ahautenites]

Mine are:

Frampton
Trofenof
King
Bugden
Turner

And I can't go any further than that because nearly everyone is dead.

[Azure]

FYI, Flowers is a very common surname in extreme southeast VA and north east NC along the coastal areas south of Jamestown.

[Danustouch]

DT was the Flower surname originally from Scotland?

I think her two lineages are predominantly Scottish, and Welsh. So probably one of the two. My Money is on Scotland though, since her first name is Heather. I can not tell you enough, how much she hated her name growing up. lol.

And yes, Azure..I do think that her family was originally from NC..but..she hasn't been able to talk the last couple of days, as she's been down with a bad throaght infection. As soon as she's feeling better though, i'll see what I can find.

[vespertine]

Hoggan
Johnson

that all i know, all bar one of my grandparent arent here anymore, and the one remaining wont talk about things like that

[Yvonne Belisle]

Schinski
Sussman
Bellaglas

Belisle
Le May

[Danustouch]

Okay..got to speak to my friend.

Dragon Dawn...

She said that her "Flowers" relatives are mainly in Indiana these days. However, she knows that she also has family in Arkansas, and Arizona, and possibly Oklahoma, as well (as they held a large family reunion there once). She THINKS that the lineage is Irish, but is going to check with her Dad the next time she talks to him. I still think it's scottish, but we'll see. She said that Half of the family is blonde haired, blue eyed, and the other half, almost native american looking. (whatever that means). Do you think there could be a possible connection? Any of your family from any of these area's?

[DragonDawn]

Sorry I had to be away from the computer for a few days.

The flowers that I'm related to was born in alabama. I'm not too sure where her family was from I know one of her daughters went to texas.
Her name was Mahala J. Flowers b. 5-8-1819. She was married twice, first to John Obediah Lowe. He was shot over a land dispute. Then she married Aziel Norris who was forced to inlist in the military because he was caught with a second wife. I'm related to her by her son Pinkney C. Lowe. (who was murdered in Mississippi for telling a joke)
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When doing research, search message boards to see if anyone else has already done the research and is willing to share. I found a man that is going to help me search through some census records for the Howard line of my family. I haven't payed for any of the information I've found. All I'm going to have to do is pay for the birth, marriage and death certificates to confirm the info. But i'm going to do it all at once.

All you need is a name and perferably a date to start doing research. I use message boards on
http://www.rootsweb.com
http://genforum.genealogy.com
and acouple of others that i can't find the addresses to right now

[Ball-Bhreac Ròn]

we have been:
Arnold
Wilson
Brookes
Brown
...oh, there are more I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll check when I next go roun to my mum's - I've drawn a giant family tree she looks after. I love geneology! :)

[Tiana_Ecarias]

okies, here's my mom's side....

Scovel(Scovell, Scovvell)
Shmitz(Smitchz)
Hibbard(England)

Here's my dad's

Anderson(germany or that area of Europe)
Petersen

[magicksighs]

Hi I am new here so i figured nothing better than to just jump into a discussion.
my geaneology is:
Pitcher
Moore
Gearhardt
Dawson
Cole
Snyder

[Dextra]

Might as well jump in on this.....

Mom's side
Watkins
Goodpaster
Davis
Ring
O'Hare

Dad's side
Hoffman
Wilson
O'Rear
O'Reilly

There's a bunch more, particularly the O'names. My uncle has my dad's family's entire lineage traced back through Ireland and Germany. Mom's family is from the British isles, Wales mainly.

[Danustouch]

O'Reilly is one of the very first clans in Ireland. So....your family roots go back VERY far there :)

[Dextra]

Originally posted by Danustouch
O'Reilly is one of the very first clans in Ireland. So....your family roots go back VERY far there :)

Don't I know it! :) And my kids are so Irish it's ridiculous...their dad's family is Irish on both sides. The poor things are so fair-skinned they nearly glow in the dark! :lol:

[Tiana_Ecarias]

My mom and I were researching our family, and found out that William the Conquerer, who came to Great Britian in 1066 was my god knows how many greats uncle! So, if THAT isn't an interesting fact.

Guess that means I have viking in me... hehehe

Tiana_Ecarias

[Lacykitten]

All I know offhand are..


Mom's dad?: Crawford
Mom's mom's dad?: Coulter

Dad's dad: Slaunwhite (changed spelling, German-Dutch)
Dad's mom's maiden: Sexsmith

.. I know I have German Dutch English Irish Scottish background.. but offhand those are the only ones I know.

[Ball-Bhreac Ròn]

Originally posted by Tiana_Ecarias
My mom and I were researching our family, and found out that William the Conquerer, who came to Great Britian in 1066 was my god knows how many greats uncle! So, if THAT isn't an interesting fact.

Guess that means I have viking in me... hehehe

Tiana_Ecarias

That's so amazing! :D How on earth did you go back that far??

[Tiana_Ecarias]

My mom and I were researcing, and it mentioned the "invasion of the Anglo Saxons" lead by William the first. So, we did more research(digging through a TON of books and such) and found out his name, which was Shmidt.

So, if you're stubborn,. you sometimes find out interesting things:D

Tiana_Ecarias

[Scarlettvixen]

Guess that means I have viking in me... hehehe

sorry Tiana_Ecarias
yr English history is a bit muddled
original inhabitants of england are ?? the picts, then there was the invasions of the angles, saxons and jutes (this is where the anglo-saxon phrase comes in) and vikings - this took place over a couple of hundred yrs, with the invaders settling and intermarrying, and then being invaded. i cant remember the exact yrs but it was from ~500 to 800 AD i think (sorry the history books are packed)

William the Conquerer was Norman - he came from they Normandy area of modern day France and invaded in 1066

[Tiana_Ecarias]

Lol, true, but to some of the England's natives, the normans were vikings, so it's more of a point of view, I would guess.

But you are right about Normandy, I got that part mixed up, sorry.

Tiana_Ecarias

[Eirwen Hartsock]

Lets see, long list. My Mum and I just went over these during my winter break.

Alphabetical order:

Brashears
Douglas (Scottish)
Edwards (Welsh)
Farmer (American Indian, Black Foot)
Fisher
Hartsock
James (Welsh)
Johnson
Lewis (Welsh)
Llewellyn
Middleton
Mills
Morgan (English)
Palmer (English)
Robinette (French)
Roland
Sperry (Welsh)
Stierstorfer (German)
Stowers
Swain
Taylor
Thomas (Welsh)
Twigg
Wilson

Yes quiet the list I know. I'm mostly Welsh as you can tell.

[Xander67]

as far as i could trace mine

McFadden
MacFayden
Fadden


its Irish

[AmbivalentMirage]

Hmm...here are mine. :) Keep in mind that some are LOOSELY connected.

Stuchel/Stuchell
Swanger/Schwanger
Hatfield
Knox
Copeland
Belle
Daugherty
Leyenberger
Vautrin
Simon
Falmen
Dufour
Charpentier
Rankin
Donley
McCullough
Renkin
Taylor
Rutherford

Schwanger, Copeland, Belle, Daugherty, Belle, Leyenberger, Vautrin, Simon, Falmen, Dufour, and Charpentier trace my family the whole way back to France. ^.^ Hehehe

[The Virus]

my dad is Boardwyne
my mom is Smith
Thats all I got right now.

[Élistariel]

If my paternal grandfather hadn't been adopted, instead of a Ferguson, I would be a Riggs.

[Élistariel]

I got some names from my great-grandmother... here's what I came up with:
Gordon
Boswell
Chapman
Poole
Finch
Johnson
Lipp
Dorothy
Coleman
Greenway
Campbell
Geddes
MacGillivrail
Forbes
Stewart
Innes
Rutherford
Maitland
Cruickshank
Somervell
DeHoya
McDuff
Crawford
Wallace
Fraser
Alexander
MacDuibhn
DeBeauchamp
Godfrey
Matthews

[Dresden]

Vahn
Vaughan
Hare
Watson
Boone
Mathewson
Miller
Canfield
Mills
Archer
Gailbraith
McDougal