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From: Ron Lawford <>
Subject: Re: [COMPTON] name variations
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:48:27 +0930
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Regarding the Compton/Cumpton pronunciation -- I was at Carham Hall in the
north of Northumberland in 1999. Carham Hall was owned by my line of
Comptons from 1748 until 1920. A distant relative who has put hundreds of
Comptons on the family tree said that the Northumberland Comptons pronounced
their name Cumpton. My mother told me that her grandmother, who was born a
few miles south of Carham hall in 1846, pronounced her name as Cumpton.

Ron Lawford
Darwin Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "lcchance" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [COMPTON] name variations


> Charles, I agree wholeheartly on the tremendous service being done by John
> in establishing this database for us to use in our research. I still have
> plenty of questions about my Compton lineage and can use every tool that
is
> available to help unlock my closed doors.
>
> Now to the pronunciation of the surname Compton. My maternal grandmother
> was Jessie Compton and my mother always referred to her phonetically as
> Jessie "Cumpton" with the 'p' nearly silent, but the understanding was
that
> her name was spelled "Compton". In the Kentucky and West Virginia
censuses
> my Compton surnames are spelled both Compton and Cumpton. My mom was born
in
> Pike County, Ky. and her mother was born in Lawrence County, Ky. I have a
> friend here in Georgia who's name is Donald Compton, the first syllable
> pronounced the same as in "CompUSA". I always used this pronunciation
> instead of my mothers or her kinfolks because I grew up in a cosmopolitan
> area and didn't adopt the dialect of my mother's ancestral home.
>
> Connie Chancellor
> Warner Robins, Georgia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Compton" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:07 AM
> Subject: [COMPTON] name variations
>
>
> > List members:
> >
> > What an admirable job John Compton (desotojohn) is doing on the census
> > data information. If you haven't seen what he is doing go have a look
> > at http://users.adelphia.net/~desotojohn/index.htm I promise you this
> > will turn out to be a great research tool for us all to use.
> >
> > One of the things that John has already run into is discovering all of
> > the different name variation spellings that were used a long time
> > back. These guys back then wrote what they heard or "thought" they
> > heard. This being the case, I wonder if back then something similar
> > to what happens now days happened then.
> >
> > What name do people mistakenly think you have "said" when you
> > pronounce "Compton"? Down here in the south it is mostly "Thompson".
> > I have been called Mr. Thompson so many times, until I turn to look
> > when I hear the name. Yes, I have a southern accent, but my wife is
> > from New Jersey and she has the same thing happen to her. Is Thompson
> > an error unique to the south?
> >
> > How about you guys? Any recurring mispronunciations on the Compton
> > name? The reason why I bring this up is since the old census takers
> > wrote what they thought they heard, then is it possible that many
> > records are listed under a sound alike that might not start with a
> > "C"? What experiences do you have?
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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