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Hello, fellow family history nerd!

The name spellings happened a lot at Ellis Island in New York harbor when the immigration officials phonetically spelled the surnames of people who could not speak English. And the census-takers, too.

A fairly common example is the surname Englund. Yes, with the U. My own surname, and my mother's maiden name, show up in different records with about 3 different spellings.

Fun fun fun!
 
The last I heard was that it was caused by construction. So tragic.
 

There is in my family tree a person called Blackmore he had two sons ones surname was Blackmore the others Surname became Blackmar both called William they both went to America where the Blackmar also gained a variant Blackmer as in Sidney Blackmer.
 
Guzzler said:
The eldest XL son's infant school headmistress was called Farquarson pronounced Farkson and the youngest son's headmistress was called Goodswin pronounced Gudsun. There must be a gene for teachers
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Hmm ... I wonder if the US TV producer Mark Goodson was a distant relation ...
 
JohnEGreen said:
There is in my family tree a person called Blackmore he had two sons ones surname was Blackmore the others Surname became Blackmar both called William they both went to America where the Blackmar also gained a variant Blackmer as in Sidney Blackmer.
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So may names often start off as something different, in their spelling and pronounciation.
 
It's like Godwinson to Godwin to Goodwin in many cases Godwin became Goodwin because the anglo saxon word God was pronounced Good.
 
JohnEGreen said:
It's like Godwinson to Godwin to Goodwin in many cases Godwin became Goodwin because the anglo saxon word God was pronounced Good.
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Oops! I should have read your post before making my comment. It's early and I'm old!
 
In old English, any word with a double "s" in the middle was written as "ff" and similarly, any name that began with an "f" was written as "ff" . One of my family names was Crossley, written as Croffley and another name was Fielden, written as Ffielden.
 

Whenever I try reading an early edition of something by -- say -- Jane Austen, I find myself lisping the initial "s"s printed so that they look to me like fs. lol

I read somewhere that surnames starting with ff are written with two lower-case fs rather than one capital F. Is that correct?
 
Hi all

Home from our long weekend away but a quick turn around as we're off to France on Thursday for the Easter break.

Hope you're all well today.

Traceymac23 said:
Good Luck parking it in London!!
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We stayed at the Caravan Club Site at Abbey Wood and got the train in.
Guzzler said:
Poor old Paris, what a tragedy. All that history.
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Very sad, we got to see Notre Dame last year on our second attempt.
 
Guzzler said:
There is the 'poshing up' or fashion for changing names to sound more upper class but without the change in pronunciation such as Wriothesley from Risley pronounced Risley and Cholmondesley pronounced Chumley and Menzies from Ming. great stuff!
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Ah! And Mrs Buoquet from Mrs Bucket !!
 
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