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From: Ronda Stansberry <>
Subject: Re: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Re: Stooksberry, Stooksbury
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:38:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: <002901c2e672$e86e5400$3349170c@computer>


What I noticed was that the census folk often put the names down phoenetically--for instance, with "Foust", a lot of the older
folk pronounced it "Fouse" and I'd guess that's how it ended up spelled that way. One of my relatives was a Kelly Foust, but
for years I thought it was "Cal" b/c that's how his name was pronounced. It's neat to get a clue into the accents. Thanks for
sharing some of the variants in spellings--it's a good reminder to check in several places.

3/9/2003 2:34:30 PM, Phyllis Peterson <> wrote:

>How right you are. We must remember some people could not read nor write and
>the census takers were not much smarter (smile) They had to sound it out &
>pray they were right and 90% of the time were wrong. My Rodgers family in
>Clinton, name was changed by the school to Roger's One son said No, you
>don't and he spent his life with the name Rodgers. Phyllis
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:02 PM
>Subject: Re: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Re: Stooksberry, Stooksbury
>
>
>> Hi Jim Wallace,
>>
>> there is so much confussion with some of our ancestors
>> last name because some chose to spell it different and
>> then some of it was the fault of Clerks of Courts and
>> Census Takers.
>>
>> I have members of the same families that spell their
>> names one way while the other spells it the other,
>> such as:
>>
>> Disney/Dizney, Burris/Burress, Johnson/Johnston,
>> Foust/Faust/Fouse, Bird/Byrd, Pyles/Piles, Byrge/Burge
>> Cornett/Cornitt/Curnutt, Atkins/Adkins.
>>
>> I guess the VOWELL rules messed some of them up and I
>> am supprised that some of my cousins ddin't spell
>> their names A-E-I-O-U-Y (especially the Vowell side
>> :)!!
>>
>> Cuz'n John
>>
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