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From: Christopher Brooks <>
Subject: Re: Name Tamarew?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 05:49:35 -0800


Robert wrote:
>
> My great-great grandmother's first given name was apparently
> Tamarew. Has anybody heard of this name before? The spelling is
> hard to read on her daughter's death certificate.

Tamarew, no ... Tamesin (Tamasin, Tamson, etc.), yes; the name begins
appearing in New England in the late 18th century, probably borrowed
from some popular literary work of the day, and runs through the
mid-19th century. Assuming the birth certificate is handwritten, could
the letters "sin" have been misread as "rew"? It would be easy to
misread an "n" for a "w," for instance, if the handwriting is poor.

Christopher Brooks

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