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From: "C Rihan" <>
Subject: Re: Pimbury
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 11:33:10 GMT
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"cecilia" <> wrote in message
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> A more extreme case:
> My ggggg-father gave his illegitimate eldest son George, born about
> 1785, his own surname, reversed ("a deliberate misspelling" <grin>).
> As far as I can tell, the son only had daughters. Certainly there's
> no sign of the reversed surname by 1881.
>
> So it would appear that the name was used by the son, his two wives,
> his live-in partner (occasionally), and his five daughters, and George
> was the only male with the surname (NYLEVE) *ever*.

That's an interesting story.

Strangley enough, there are less hits for Pimbury than for Nyleve on Google.
Most of the Pimbury hits are to do with the story about the man being the
last of that spelling (and in various languages now).

I wonder if reversing the name Evelyn is where the other Nyleve's are from..
There are a couple of companies with the name
e. g. Nyleve Bridge Corporation
http://www.paturnpike.com/news/1997/May/nr05-21-97b.aspx

Others seem to use it as a first name

Kabalarian philosophy site has a summary of the name Nyleve
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:F5prZzz9QmYJ:www.kabalarians.com/Female/nyleve.htm+Nyleve+-unreal+-corp&hl=en

I wonder if there are other surnames originating as reversed names.
Trebor, perhaps?

Best wishes
C.Rihan


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