Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
1) We all have a plethora of surnames in our family trees, and some of them are funny, strange, interesting, or unique. Please share five of your funny, strange, interesting, or unique surnames in your ancestry. How are they related to you?
[Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for this SNGF prompt]
Here’s mine:
Jacob Appel (1815-??), who married Dorothea Margaretha Carolina Wollenweber, my husband’s 2nd-great aunt.
Carl W. Applequist (1903-1969), who married Edna Ruth Palmer (1911-1986), the sister of Rose Emelia Palmer, who married my husband’s great-uncle, Berger Malcolm Nielsen (1902-1949).
Laura May Bacon (1884-1971), who married Lonnie O. Lancaster (1876-1911), my 2nd-great-granduncle.
Ellen Bird (1850-1933), who married James Quigley (1846-1944), the grandfather of my father’s cousin, John J. Quigley (1926-2008).
Oscar W. Couch (1891-1953), who married my great-grandfather, Thomas N. Johnston’s sister, Edna M. Johnston (1891-1976), and his brother, John W. Couch (1888-1957), who married Edna’s sister, Florence E. Johnston (1887-1976).
That gets me through the Cs. We’ll have to keep doing this to get to names like Daberry, Dollberg, Dubhorn, Finch, Fishbein, Groce, Korn, Livernoche, Lohrfink, and Longacre, for the first half of the alphabet.
I love the food names. I also have Bacon - Michael of Dedham, MA in 1640 and Simon Couch early in CT.
ReplyDeleteI love Bacon also, but the name that really caught my eye was Couch, because there's a street in Portland with that name, for Captain John Heard Couch.
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