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« on: Sunday 01 June 14 23:07 BST (UK) »
3 years later and I have the sudden urge to research my origins once again.
I Googled my surname and of course, due to the (so i thought) lack of interest
this post was on search page 1! However that was to my delight as it meant that I
did not have to look far.
Thank you so much everybody for the responses, I have not read through them all yet, only the first page, this is as much about you as it is I however and I thank you for the learning experience which we have all shared.
So my family comes from Bettembos, a tiny place in France, from the 1100s? As per the last recorded census which I saw (only looked on Wikipedia) there were less than 100 people living there in 2006. I finally know my origins, I finally know who I am. But not why our name was changed, perhaps to distance ourselves from anything related to our Huguenot past?
I do however think that some surnames have originated from people spelling them wrong, what's written being taken for fact, and the name sticking and creating variations (maybe). I also think a lot of surnames were just appointed to people as per their profession, i.e, workman, drinkwater, breakspear however I could be wrong!
I Googled my surname and of course, due to the (so i thought) lack of interest
this post was on search page 1! However that was to my delight as it meant that I
did not have to look far.
Thank you so much everybody for the responses, I have not read through them all yet, only the first page, this is as much about you as it is I however and I thank you for the learning experience which we have all shared.
So my family comes from Bettembos, a tiny place in France, from the 1100s? As per the last recorded census which I saw (only looked on Wikipedia) there were less than 100 people living there in 2006. I finally know my origins, I finally know who I am. But not why our name was changed, perhaps to distance ourselves from anything related to our Huguenot past?
I do however think that some surnames have originated from people spelling them wrong, what's written being taken for fact, and the name sticking and creating variations (maybe). I also think a lot of surnames were just appointed to people as per their profession, i.e, workman, drinkwater, breakspear however I could be wrong!