Latin! ----- Original Message ----- From: MehdiFakhar@aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:36 PM To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAVARIA] Re: Unusual First Names: Hieronymus - Hyronimus Lester & Dorothy, I have a Bavarian ancestor in my Umhoefer line with the German first name of Hieronymus. It was spelled Hyronimus. Perhaps it is also a Dutch name, but I just wanted to let you know that it was also a name used in Bavaria. -Kay > Subj: [BAVARIA] FW: [B-W] Unusual First Names > Date: 9/20/2005 8:15:59 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: dotwhite@comcast.net > Reply-to: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > > I am searching for the home place of Hieronymus Glantz. The English captain > of the ship he came over on gave his name as Jeremy Glance (Anglicized) > Now I have been told the Dutch for Hieronymus is Jerimy/Jeremy. He may have > been from The Netherlands (Holland.) > > Dorothy C. White > dotwhite@comcast.net > 804.795.4296 > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: TedSned@aol.com [mailto:TedSned@aol.com] > >Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:34 PM > >To: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [B-W] Unusual First Names > > >In a message dated 9/20/2005 5:53:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > >les570@hotmail.com writes: > > > >Can anyone tell me what the Americanized names would be for > >the following: > > > >Domadila > >Esris > >Alois > >Anastasia > >Baldwina > >Hieronimus > > > >All of the above were found on a passenger list of people > >coming from Germany to New York in 1842. > > > >Lester > > > > >Lester, > > > >Hard to tell what they "would" be, as immigrants were > >sometimes pretty > >inventive when it came to "Americanizing" their names. > >Otherwise, the first two > >are not names familiar to me, but Alois appears in English > >with the Latin > >version, Aloysius. Anastasia is Anastasia. Baldwina is not > >familiar to me. > >Hieronymus or Hieronimus is usually rendered in English as Jerome. > > > >Regards, > >Ted Snediker > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records