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Posted on 12/21/21 at 9:12 pm to weagle99
My wife’s dad put an H on the end of their name then took it off. I still don’t understand why.
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:31 pm to weagle99
My ancestors on one side were French Huguenots that arrived in 1700s and changed the spelling of their name to English version to fit it. So u have always thought I was Irish. lol
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:36 pm to TutHillTiger
Mine was a clerical error when OG ancestor got here. Thick foreign accent was hard to understand and it went from there. At some point one of my ancestors changed it back to original spelling but many on a different branch didn’t. So there are two spellings but we are related.
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:41 pm to lsu13lsu
Also in most cases people were illiterate so they just wrote down something that sounded like what people said. Ellis island was best guess, people moved to states and it was misspelled on census etc . It’s really really common. People would ask is this guy related to you and i would say no he spells it with E or no S etc. Now i now that doesn’t mean shite
This post was edited on 12/21/21 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 12/21/21 at 10:43 pm to weagle99
quote:
What could have been the motivations of people in the 1800’s to do this?
The ladies working at Ellis Island were the 1800s version of this:
Posted on 12/21/21 at 11:20 pm to weagle99
My grandfather was a Stewart. Our lineage has been traced back to North Carolina. It was traced back at least 50 years ago. They have found where our ancestors back in the early 1800’s got off the boat from Europe as a Stewart, but don’t have where anyone got on the boat and signed as a Stewart.
New World,... new name.
New World,... new name.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 12:37 am to weagle99
My Acadian ancestors had their family name Americanized during that period.
Somehow, our real family name is lost despite my mom, my aunts, and me all trying to find it. It sucks having a generic last name as a Cajun. One of the perks of being Cajun should be having a cool family name like Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, or Hebert, but here we are. (And yes, I’m certain we’re Cajun; I did a stupid and got a DNA test).
Somehow, our real family name is lost despite my mom, my aunts, and me all trying to find it. It sucks having a generic last name as a Cajun. One of the perks of being Cajun should be having a cool family name like Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, or Hebert, but here we are. (And yes, I’m certain we’re Cajun; I did a stupid and got a DNA test).
Posted on 12/22/21 at 6:15 am to weagle99
quote:
Why would someone change the spelling of their name
Crazy ex?
Posted on 12/22/21 at 7:02 am to weagle99
to prevent harrassment
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:54 am to weagle99
New a girl whose last name was Frangaki. She said that her grandfather (several generations back) was a sailor in the Greek navy. He went to shore while they were at port, and bought some really trendy trousers. When he got back to the ship...everyone on the crew started calling him "Frangaki"...which meant "Fancy Pants"...so he changed his surname to Fancy Pants.
Don't know if it is true...only know that is the story she told me. From that point forward, I referred to her as Fancy Pants...because, why wouldn't I?
Don't know if it is true...only know that is the story she told me. From that point forward, I referred to her as Fancy Pants...because, why wouldn't I?
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:58 am to weagle99
A lot of last names were changed to be more Anglicized and fit with the culture of the US. Germans did this a lot. My paternal grandmother's maiden name was Swint which I believe is a Dutch name for Germans that went to the Netherlands and changed it there from something like 'Schwind' or 'Schwinde' or 'Gschwind.'
Besides in the US, the next most prevalence of the name is in the Netherlands.
LINK
^ Cool site btw.
Besides in the US, the next most prevalence of the name is in the Netherlands.
LINK
^ Cool site btw.
This post was edited on 12/22/21 at 10:02 am
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:01 am to wahoocs
I believe church and clerical errors is correct. An “R” was added to my families last name at Ellis Island. Doubt you had time to say “ that’s wrong buddy, it’s xxxxxxx”. And half the people couldn’t read or didn’t care.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:16 am to weagle99
I’d add an extra T or L if my name was spelled HITLER
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:18 am to weagle99
There was some distant relative in our family that was all into tracing the family tree many years ago. His research showed a family line of the last name of Oliver. Then the family lines suddenly turned to Revilo leaving just one Oliver by himself on the document. It turns out the remaining Oliver was gay so the rest of the family changed their name in reverse order of Oliver to Revilo! LOL
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:57 am to weagle99
Ours did this after a family feud in the late 1800s. Middle of the name has “ier” for some “ear” for others as a result.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 11:00 am to cheobode
quote:and you believed that story?
Apparently, the reason why there is a "X" at the end of Comeaux, Thibodeaux, Arceneaux ,etc was that when the French Canadians had to sign off on anything it looked like this
Posted on 12/22/21 at 2:18 pm to weagle99
One of my great grandfather's immigrated from Sicily to West Virginia and became a coal miner. The Italian spelling of his last name was Ianni. Some West Virginia official spelled his last name Yoney. I can only guess he didn't know how to write and someone wrote it down how it sounded.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 3:20 pm to weagle99
A friend of mine's grandfather change their Italian last name to Williams when they came over here.
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