If there’s German on one side, then I’d suggest the Miller side could originally have been Mullers.
(I’m really just posting here to say that we’re location-kinfolk - I’m from Woodbridge v1.0a )
If there’s German on one side, then I’d suggest the Miller side could originally have been Mullers.
(I’m really just posting here to say that we’re location-kinfolk - I’m from Woodbridge v1.0a )
The handful that I remember off the top of my head:
Fehr
Warner
MacKenzie
MacGillicuddy (may be in error as to spelling)
Ball
James
I doubt anyone here has mine, Pinholster. Also there is Espinosa (which is just the Spanish version of Pinholster) or on th other sides, the very common Williams and Young. That’s all I’ll probably ever know.
Porter, Furlotte, Mealey (O’Malley), Vautour, Belliveau, Stewert, Legere
by marriage:
Anderson, Stuart
If non-Merkins can play:
Bostock (Sydney [white] and Queensland [Aboriginal] since 184-something)
Brownlee (Sydney region -ex-Scotland about 100 years ago maybe - supposedly related to the Irish branch of the same name too)
Bustard (!) (English pickpocket transported to Australia - who for some reason changed this delightful surname to ‘Bostock’)
Favelle (I think this one goes to France via 18th Century Kent, I think - the line does anyway, not sure about the name)
Lawson (of the Henry [writer] variety)
Mitchell (of the Sir Thomas [explorer] variety)
Ross, the Oklahoma branch
Upton
Blair
Devereaux
Santner
The spoilsports! I wonder if www.greatbustard.com would have changed their opion.
Wow! I really expected to see a few of my family names, and I did, just not as many as I expected.
I married a Noe. His family is in the W.Va., Kentucky, and western Va. area.
My family - Miller/Muller and variations, Hauser, James (but was possibly Jacobus before a family spat split the family), Mitchell, Martin, Spaugh/Spach, Tesh, Teague, Burk/Burke, Lashmit, Eichorn, Reid/Reed/Ried/Read.
Arriving in the early 1700’s in Maine and Pa. settling and moving again, leaving branches along the way to present day Winston-Salem, NC and surrounding counties. As the west opened up, branches moved to the midwest, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, and later to the west coast.
Mostly German, disputed Alsace region, a touch of French, Irish, Scot, and Swiss. The Native American is hard to pin down.
Ack!
For the the Dutch!
Fincher, Gabbard, and Hollis (although only by marriage)
There are many more… my mom’s been doing research, but I don’t know any right now.
Another variant I’ve seen (not that I’m related) is Hardiek. The distant cousin is likely Bill Hartack, who’s from Pennsylvania and won the Kentucky Derby five times before a career shift from jockey to track steward.
As for me, I haven’t seen any matches yet. Great-grandparents’ surnames were:
Mother’s side (Baltimore-based): Klemme, Huber, Blanchard, Hess
Father’s side (Cleveland, Ohio): Michl, Kozak, Strohs, Maruna
I also know of ancestors named Cordes (maternal) and Chanda (paternal). Not sure if I nailed either of those spellings, though the first eight are correct.
My mom is Perry.
On my American side: Perry, Long, Offutt, Thorp.
On my German side: Haarbart, Schwab.
Here are all I know, ordered alphabetically:
Altman - Poland, by way of NYC.
Feinstein - The Ukraine, by way of Philadelphia and southern NJ.
Friedland - Friedland, natch (a track of land that was part of either Lithuania, Prussia, Poland or Russia, depending on the period in history; we like to think of it as our Litvak branch), by way of NYC.
Steinig - Galicia (Poland), by way of Philadelphia and southern NJ.
Tyson > ? (possibly from Palatine, Germany>Philadelphia>Virginia)
Randall >Scotland>Virginia
Suthard (aka Southard)>Scotland>Virginia
Both the Randalls and Southards got here (VA) about 1630. The Tysons (Tisons) start showing up around 1700.
We haven’t moved more than 20 miles in any direction since then.
I don’t know a lot of family names, but here’s a few:
Maternal: Moore, Waters (Ohio)
Paternal: Holliday, Hill (Ohio, W. Va, Fla.)
Married Paternal: Harris (changed from Rosovski or Rosofsky, W. Va, Virginia, Cal.)
Married Maternal: Yontz (w. Va.)
Wow, how fun is this?!
I will go home tonight and check my lineage - I actually have a terrifically cool “family wheel” from my Grandfather that shows actual lineage only (parents only, that is) starting with my great-grandparents and going back, in some cases to the 1630’s. I know that Adam Hawkes is the linear descendant of Remember Allerton, and the Roberts side married in to that - my grandmother was a Craigie Street (Cambridge, MA) Maxwell, and I believe her mother’s maiden name is the Roberts connection.
I’m guessing we’re tied in several ways - all those people were pretty picky about who they married way back then.
Belles from central Pennsylvania (and some quick Googling tells me there’s a whole crap-load of them around those parts, and,
LeCompte from New Jersey. I know they’ve been there for a while. One of my uncles traced some LeComptes back to the area that is now Allaire State Park in the late 1700s.
I know pitifully little about my ancestors. One of my uncles did a lot of research some years back; I’ll have to see if my cousin has any of his papers.
Let’s run with Mom and Dad’s mom and dad… in no particular order, MacDougall, O’Neill, Flesher, Murray.
I’d look good in a kilt pretty much by default.
Betcha we’re cousins someplace, even though I don’t come up with any commons. The De la O Millan is a funny one, are you sure it isn’t two (De la O and Millán)? Morales is very common in my part of Spain, but uncommon in other areas. The -ez ones are just all over the place…
Ochoa de Olza, Velasco, Sanz, Zanni (Italian), Arrieta, Blosed (original spelling Drossel, it’s German and reached Spain via France), Arilla, Fernández, Ríos, Osés, Yániz, Armendáriz and that’s without digging out the family tree.
There’s a family in my hometown called Cristo. They always name the first male Jesús, for obvious reasons.