# Share some surnames and let's see if we's kinfolk **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101 "2005-06-20T19:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/21 "2005-06-21T00:38:11Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Ahem. They is a whole passle -o- Pullins in Yell county (on my Mama’s side). Reckon the place is near full of 'em. Names you’d reckonize, I betcha… > > Just thought you’d wanna know… cuzzin 😛 Pshaw! You don’t say! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/22 "2005-06-21T01:08:10Z")
Mother’s side - all I know is: Holt, Moore, Brannan Father’s side all I know is my own, and it’s pretty darn unique. Enough so that googling it almost guarantees you’ll come up with me or my immediate family, so I’m not going to share it here. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/23 "2005-06-21T01:42:02Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > My paternal grandmother was McDonald and my maternal was MacDonald. My maternal grandfather was a Leslie, his mother was a Hood as in Hood Canal, part of Puget Sound. My grandfather’s grandfather was one of the early settlers of the west side of Puget Sound, including the name Bremer of which Bremerton got it’s name. My paternal grandfather came to the US from England as a young boy and his family settled in SE Pennsylvania. I learned recently I still have distant cousins in southern England with the names Hastings, Bonney, and Gordon. McDonald as well - ours came from the Isle of Rum 😃 to Nova Scotia in the 1820’s. Also: Morrell, Strickler, Payne, Curphey, Finch (back to the Winthrop expedition), Chapman, Hayward, Hay, Brown, Clancy, Perkins, Udall. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/24 "2005-06-21T01:55:46Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Lessee here… > > (in alphabetical order) > > Italian side of the family (from Sicily and Calabria, having immigrated to SE Texas and Canada): Cuccia, Mann/Manno, Palazzola, Rizzotto, Trombatore Hey, Palazola was the name of my very best friend in grade school! One Z. As for me, one my mother’s side, I’m Flury(or Fluri) and Stoker(and that can be spelled all sorts of ways). That’s the Swiss side of the family. Also McCormick. My dad is Emrich and Perry. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Pensandfeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Pensandfeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pensandfeathers)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/25 "2005-06-21T02:02:27Z")
Alrighty, let’s see… **Cessna** of Pennsylvania **Dennis** of Texas **McHargue** of Scotland (use to be Graham)…then Ireland (when they fled the Graham clan and messed with the name a bit) …then eventually to Washington/Oregon. **Lamborn** of Bath, England - now Utah **Heller** of Switzerland, now Utah Those are the main surnames that run through my veins 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/26 "2005-06-21T02:14:39Z")
Anyone from the Smies family around? We **Mercotan** s are related to a number of Smieses. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/27 "2005-06-21T03:14:09Z")
Beauchamp, Dixon, Fountain, Adams, Parker, Dennis, Bozman and others from old Somerset Co., MD. White, McElroy and McLendon of the Whiteites in Georgia. Key (not the Francis Scott family though), Tandy, Palmer, Watts and Townsend of Virginia. And if you descend from a Freeman in Massachusetts you probably descend from Edmund Freeman of Pulborough and so do I. Damn, nothing with anyone else so far unless **Pensandfeathers** ’s Dennis family goes back to Donnock. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/28 "2005-06-21T04:19:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Hey, Palazola was the name of my very best friend in grade school! One Z. Could very well be related – several of us Italians had name changes when coming over to the States, and to be honest, I can’t remember if the cousins of mine spell theirs with one Z or two. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/29 "2005-06-21T04:53:54Z")
The closest I come to anybody in here is **racer** ’s McDonald with a Donaldson on my mother’s side. 'Course my dad’s side has a name that’s fairly rare even back in Germany. I have never met anybody with my same last name who wasn’t a relative. We’ve been here since at least 1720; you’d think there’d be a few more of us! That’s okay, we’ve got McMillans, Traders, and Campbells by marriage and there’s tons of them. Y’know, in case I needed to get an army together or go to a movie or something. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/30 "2005-06-21T05:29:00Z")
The only names I know about are Carpenter, Roberts, West, and Behan. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/31 "2005-06-21T08:23:14Z")
Just a handfull: Stephenson, Byars, Cook of TN and Stephens of TX. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/32 "2005-06-21T10:27:04Z")
Lund and Bogenholm, both of Sweden. Anderson from Norway (yeah, yeah, me and half my state). Mayavski and Sandowski from Poland. Sowa and Kranz from Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/33 "2005-06-21T10:45:02Z")
Wilton \> Originally from Cornwall Dunwoodie (alt. Dinwiddie) \> Scotland/Ireland Groombridge \> Kent Hanniver \> Ireland O’Meara \> Ireland Barlow \> Yorkshire Most of the surnames in my ancestry are common, dime a dozen sorts of names like White, Smith, Turner, etc. The ones I’ve listed are the less common names. The link to my website is in my profile. There’s more information on my family history there. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/34 "2005-06-21T13:08:42Z")
Going back four generations: Webster - Connecticut Karl - Germany/Connecticut Twining - Maryland Burton - Maryland Chew - Georgia Cox - North Carolina Cromerty - North Carolina I’m afraid I don’t know my Father’s paternal Grandmother’s Maiden Name off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/35 "2005-06-21T13:33:13Z")
All in New England: Keeping Sheppard – yes, that particular spelling Colman – note the lack of an “e” Graf – from Lautskirchen bei Zaarbrucken Ther are other English ancesters but I’d have to dig up the genealogical stuff that’s tucked away somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/36 "2005-06-21T13:53:55Z")
Madgwick - WV \> Australia \> England Graham - Australia \> Scotland Edmond - Australia \> England Barry - Australia \> Ireland (Athlone) Littlejohn - Australia \> England ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/37 "2005-06-21T14:24:29Z")
A few more… **Flowers** from MD and NC **Goldsborough** from MD **Golden** from AL ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/38 "2005-06-21T14:24:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You have to be a genealogist to understand. A bit of a geek, as well. I’m not a fenealogist, so … I guess that makes me … ::sighs and hangs head:: a bit of a geek. Oh. OK. I’ll admit it. I’m a GEEK. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/39 "2005-06-21T14:26:11Z")
nor a typist ! feneologist :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101/40 "2005-06-21T14:26:12Z")
We have Lusts and Suessemilch from Germany and Hall and Bell of Texas and environs. Not all that helpful 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-surnames-and-lets-see-if-wes-kinfolk/309101.md?page=3)