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From: "donald samuels" <>
Subject: Re: [MADKY] naming pattern and etc.
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:52:02 -0600
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Don't dismiss naming patterns, they may drive us up and down the tree, but
they also may point to European ancestry. I have been told many Doctors,
midwives, military commander, and preachers have unrelated namesakes. Case
in point a highly respected preacher, evidently, told that he would give an
inheritance to those naming a child Finis! And in reading his will one
finds a gift of a silver spoon to a long list of Finis somethings If only
he had said "these are in order of birth".
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Subject: Re: [MADKY] Some Common Given Names in Early Harris Males


>I am related by marriage to the Harris's thru Moberly's. Have you come
> across this name previously?
> Donna Moberley Nichols
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> Subject: [MADKY] Some Common Given Names in Early Harris Males
>
>
>> Dear Harris-Hunters,
>>
>> I am a descendant of a female Harris, a daughter of Overton Harris, who
>> died
>> intestate ca 1827 in Madison Co., Kentucky.
>>
>> This woman, dau. of Overton Harris and Nancy Oldham, married in Madison
>> Co.,
>> but gave birth to her first two children in Tennessee, inherited some of
>> her
>> mother's estate in Madison Co., which legacy her husband apparently used
>> to
>> migrate to Texas with his young family. Poor Carlisle [female
>> mistakenly
>> called Caroline in some records] died shortly thereafter, says the Texas
>> mortality schedule of 1860, of stomach inflamation.
>>
>> I do research in MANY Southern States for periods prior to the Civil War,
>> but not much in Tennessee.
>>
>> In my research, I have noted these are common first names for many Harris
>> males, and probably NOT all of them are related. (Have you noticed that
>> the
>> mothers of Jones males attempt, in many cases, to give the males unusual
>> first
>> names to distinguish them from ALL those other Joneses?)
>>
>> At any rate, my research observations lead me to believe that many
>> Harris
>> males bear these first names. That does not mean they are related, but
>> COULD
>> BE (no guarantees in genealogy).
>>
>> Tyree
>>
>> Sherwood
>>
>> Overton
>>
>> And, of course, there are the common names, leading us to link persons
>> who
>> probably are NOT related: Robert, William, James.
>>
>> I thought I would make this comment, just to keep you searching and
>> analyzing those males with these *unusual* given names..
>>
>> E.W.Wallace
>> PS If you are related to Tyree Harris, formerly of Louisa Co, VA, who
>> died
>> testate in Caswell Co., NC ca 1787, I will share my notes with you. His
>> second wife, Mary Ann Simpson, was a sister to my ancestress Elizabeth
>> (Bettie)
>> Simpson Oldham, wife of Jesse Oldham, later of Madison Co., KY.
>>
>>
>>
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