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From: "Mary Ann Thurmond" <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Johann Michael Braun (Michael Brown)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:24:48 -0700
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On some of these listings of German (including other "Germanic" countries)
immigrants, over half of the names on a page have the first name
Johan/Johann/Johannes!! I don't know whether they really used that as a
first name that often or whether it was added because of some misconceived
idea that one "needed" three names. In the record I cited, Conrad, Andreas
and Johann Michael all have surnames spelled Braun; of course, it is a
transcription and I sometimes think that in transcriptions there is a lot of
editing included as well. There are a couple of other issues---spelling
wasn't standardized until well after 1900 and you had people who spoke many
different languages as the scribes of these records.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
To: "Mary Ann Thurmond" <>; <>;
<>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Johann Michael Braun (Michael Brown)


>I have the passenger list from the JENEFFER on a CD, and it says that
>Andreas was a BrauM while Conrad and Johann were BrauN. I tried looking
>through the CD for Johann Braun (this CD won't look for 3 names) and my
>GOSH, there are a ton of them....sometimes several on the same
>ship.......till it dawned on me, that's John Brown......no wonder there
>were so many...what a common name.
> The Johann Michael Braun who arrived on the Jeneffer, took the oath Nov.
> 29th...so did Conrad Braun, and Andreas BROWN.....so, Andreas had,
> apparently, Anglicized his name already.
>
> S.

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