In my last posting I listed out all my surnames that originated (at least once they moved to America) in Rehoboth, MA. One day soon I'd like to visit that town.
Anyway, so below is a list of my other surnames, I like to think of them as "Not-from-Rehoboth-Surnames":
AKINS - the farthest back I have them is the 1800s in Lockwood, NY. They are a brick wall for me.
BROWN - first lived in Swansea, Mass, don't have much on them at all, the name comes from a wife
CHURCHILL - first lived in Wethersfield, CT. Lots of old genealogies try to link my Josiah Churchill to the famous Churchill family but I'm not buying it
COLLINS - first lived in Boston, then moved to Walllingford, CT, came from Herford, England
DOMELLE - immigrated in the 20th century from what was NagyOsz, Hungary (now in Romania) and moved to Lake Village, Indiana
ENSIGN - first lived in Hartford, CT. Some old genealogies try to prove a link to nobility with this one, but again, I'm not buying it.
FIENES - this was a maiden name for the mom of the wife of the first Bliss of mine that came over. Family was from Maiden Newton, Dorset, England
FOOTE - lived in Wethersfield, CT, came from Shalford, Essex, England and Royston, Hertfordshire, England
GEORGE - lived in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, have little because it was a wife
GIBBS - 1800s in Waterloo, Seneca Co, NY, have little because it was a maiden name
KINGSBURY - another maiden name of a family that first came over, they came from Dedham, Norfolk, England, but that's all I have right now
KIRBY - lots of brick walls in NY in the 1800s - another maiden name in Waterloo, Seneca, NY that comes from who knows where
LYNN - darn those maiden names, it's so hard to prove who the parents were in so many cases! This one was in Connecticut.
MIX - originall in New Haven, CT, then moved to Wallingford, CT, then NY - the cause of all my mysterious maiden names in NY. I know the first Mix came from London, but that's it.
OBENDORFER - married to the Domelle above, so was in Lake Village, Indiana. all I know is that she said she was born in Vienna and that's it!
ROCKWELL - lived in Windsor, CT, came supposedly from Fitzhead, Somerset, England
ROYCE - lived in New London, CT, came suppsedly from Martok, Somerset, England
STEVENS - another maiden name who married a Mix, I got nothing - 1800s in Greene, Chenango County, NY
TROWBRIDGE - lived in Boston, New Haven, CT, Branford, CT. Supposedly came from Devonshire, England
TURNER - like the Mix, I only know he came from London. First lived in Lynn, Massachusetss, then founded New Haven, CT
WHEATLIE - a maiden name of one who came over - is supposed to be from Maiden Newton, Dorset, England
And those are all my surnames to the point of emigration or immigration, whatever you want to call it!!
I remember of lot of these names from when we were walking from headstone to headstone up in the New Haven area with our little lists of names that you gave us, the three of us made short work of it. It was a nice trip!
ReplyDeleteI'm also a descendant of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming of Wethersfield, Connecticut. I've never gotten down to there to look for gravestones or houses, but I have the records. My lineage goes Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, to Eunice, b. 1694 m. Michael Taintor.
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