Looking for Autreys can be a real challenge because of the many ways the name has been spelled. It is not unusual to see the name spelled two or even three different ways on a single document. Just off hand, I have seen the name spelled. Autrey Autery Autry Awtrey Awtry Awtery Awtroy Ortra Ortre Otries Otry Ottery Oytry It can be a real challenge to find them in census indexes. Janey E. Joyce in San Antonio, Texas Milyel@aol.com wrote: Robin, my great great grandfather, Cornelius Autrey (sometimes Autry), was married in Rutherford County, NC, 9 June 1801, and his marriage was recorded as: Nelus Otry m. Nany (Nancy) Eaves. One of his sons spelled his name Awtrey, and that line has consistently used that spelling. Mildred Yelverton ==== AUTRY Mailing List ==== Have you visited the Autrey Heritage page? It's at http://www.autreyheritage.com/

Autrey was also sometimes spelled as heard to be related to the now disused mathematical expression "aught" (zero)... Aughtery or Aughtry. If you are using a soundex index, some of these spelling are so far apart that they actually fall under quite different soundex codes. RW Janey Joyce wrote: >Looking for Autreys can be a real challenge because of the many ways the name has been spelled. It is not unusual to see the name spelled two or even three different ways on a single document. > >Just off hand, I have seen the name spelled. > >Autrey >Autery >Autry >Awtrey >Awtry >Awtery >Awtroy >Ortra >Ortre >Otries >Otry >Ottery >Oytry > >It can be a real challenge to find them in census indexes. > >Janey E. Joyce in San Antonio, Texas > >Milyel@aol.com wrote: >Robin, my great great grandfather, Cornelius Autrey (sometimes Autry), was >married in Rutherford County, NC, 9 June 1801, and his marriage was recorded as: >Nelus Otry m. Nany (Nancy) Eaves. One of his sons spelled his name Awtrey, >and that line has consistently used that spelling. > >Mildred Yelverton > >