This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bronte, Hamilton, Huff, Mercer, Echols, McLean, Murrell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/469.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi David, Benjamin Franklin Bronte was my grandfather's brother, and that was his birth name. But his mother (Virginia Echols Bronte) died shortly after giving birth, and Benjamin was taken by a relative (her sister, I think) and given the name Roy Cain. The father, John Calvin Bronte, had been having some trouble with the law - he was a whiskey maker, I think. So anyway - Benjamin became Roy Cain. I have his son Cecil Winfred down as a Cain. He may have changed his name back to Bronte at some point. I'm not sure, I'll ask. A few of the descendants did that, such as Jim Bronte (born Jim Cain). BTW, Cecil Winifred's sister, Annie Lorece Cain Wright, died Wednesday morning, and her funeral is today. Gloria