Hello, I am new to this list and I would be most grateful for any help whatsoever. I just found out that my gggGrandparents Alexander Dallas and Kezia Stonebanks were married 29 Dec 1796 ay Haynes,Bedford. I believe that Dallas is an anglicized version of a French name and that the family were descendants of a Huguenot family.In the IGI I see a Dallose and a Dalliss from Bedford. I have never heard the name Stonebanks before and I wonder what it origin may be. Is it possible that it was a Huguenot name? I would be most interested to carry this line further back and to find out about the Huguenots of Bedford. I sincerely thank anyone who may have some suggestions for me. Carolyn B.C. Canada

> >I just found out that my gggGrandparents Alexander Dallas and Kezia Stonebanks >were married 29 Dec 1796 ay Haynes,Bedford. > >I believe that Dallas is an anglicized version of a French name It is esssentially a Scottish name, though the earl.ier provenance is uncertain. Alexander reinforces this. > and that the >family were descendants of a Huguenot family.In the IGI I see a Dallose and a >Dalliss from Bedford. > >I have never heard the name Stonebanks before and I wonder what it origin may >be. Is it possible that it was a Huguenot name? I would be most interested to >carry this line further back and to find out about the Huguenots of Bedford. No reason why it should have any Huguenot connetions - it is strightforwardly derived from stone banks or ramparts or old stoned boundaries to fields - much less common than hedges or other wooden erections on mounds, which is why it is a comparatively rare name (also appearing early in Bucksinghamshire/.) > >I sincerely thank anyone who may have some suggestions for me. > >Carolyn >B.C. >Canada > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >Go to the Bedfordshire Lookup Exchange at: >http://freespace.virgin.net/m.harbach/bdf.html > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society