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From: Brian Read< >
Subject: Re: Pendexter
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:42:52 +0000

You wrote:

>Does anyone know if the name Pendexter originated from the Channel Island? I
>was told by an older English gentleman that the name was a derivative of a
>name from the Channel Islands but was changed to Pendexter when they
>immigrated to Maine.

Patti,

Probably Poingdestre. It has several derivatives in the USA.
Current English pronunciation sounds like "Poin-chester" (the Poin rhyming
with coin) but in the 19th century and earlier it would probably have had a
French sound.
Today it's a common name in Jersey but not in Guernsey.

With best wishes
Brian Read

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