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Subject: Re: CORRECTION, Melanson name
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:43:12 -0500
Fredrica Givan wrote:
>
.also he says he could not find the name Melanson, or
> any name like that in the Directory of Scotland. He said the closest he
> could find to the name of Melanson was the Irish and Scotch Mullan and
> McMullin...
Thought y'all might be interested in the fact that in parts of Yorkshire
and Northumbria -- the regions of England in the northeast, near the
Scottish border -- the name "Mallinson" is fairly common. I was there
two years ago, and just for fun looked in phone directories, and saw it
several times. That's pretty close to Melanson. Doesn't prove it, but
it's suggestive.
Cheers!
Gordon
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