And it goes back further than that. My grandfather, geb. WENDSCHLAG and arriving as an infant in 1863 was WINSLOW by the time he married in the Anglican church in 1887. That is why it took me 25 years to find where he came from. I have often wondered why he anglicised his name and thought that he might have come from a different part of Prussia than the other Germans in Ipswich and did not fit in. His family came from East Brandenburg which is now in Poland. Paul. =================================================== > Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 03:56:31 +0000 > From: "Janice Nightingale" > <nightingalejanice@hotmail.com> > To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Name changes > > Chris, > I'm sure someone else on the list can answer more > expertly. Most of my early > Germans changed their names around the turn of the =================================================== > Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:25:34 -0000 > From: "Beverly" <pussims@cableone.net> > To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Name changes > > Janice, not only were there name changes, there was > a shift in religious > affiliation. This was done to appear more > Anglicised and to "fit in" a http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Get organised for Christmas early this year!