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Subject: Re: [POWYS] GAMES
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 04:37:10 EDT


Hi Jenny and Catherine,

The name Games is listed in the book " The Surnames of Wales" by John and
Sheila Rowlands of PO Box 37, Aberystwyth, Wales. It does come from GAM, of
Dafydd Gam, a mutation of "cam" meaning crooked or bent, or with a squint some say.
There is also the name Gameson, and I know one man here of that name, from
Carmarthen in Wales.

The name Gornall was also in Mid Wales at Berriew, and in Shropshire, and I
referred to it recently on this List re a Gornall man I know in Hampshire. I
have just found some of my 1845 Montgomeryshire, Wales, Cleaton/Clayton family
in Ohio and Wisconsin.

Best wishes,

Dennis Cleaton
Rads, Powys

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