At 07:00 AM 7/25/02 -0600, you wrote: >Dear List Readers, > >I thought this above information to be very interesting but the writer has >left out a large number of Bonners that have their origins in Germany, >Austria, and a few in Switzerland. The word "Bonner" translates to mean a >person from Bonn which is a large city in Germany and for a long time was its >capital seat. > >Judy Martin <[email protected]> > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:30 EDT >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [BONNER] Re: Origins of the BONNER Name >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Our Bonner line we believe may have come from the French Surname Bonaire. My >grandmother's people were French Canadian. My grandmother said her father >could speak French. She said her grandfather spelled his last name Boner. >Nobody knows for sure. > >Sandy Williams Dear Judy, Sandy and List Readers, Yes! You are most certainly correct! For example, in Philadelphia the "early" arrivals to that city whom carried the Bonner surname were mostly German. They arrived in the 1700's and early 1800's. I have also seen references to the French surname Bonaire becoming BONNER in English speaking countries. I did not mean to imply that there were ONLY two derivatives of the name. I think I had said that there were "at least two distinct 'populations' that use the surname, Bonner." My research has focused on my Irish Catholic population of Bonner's, so my comments and explanation were largely geared towards my research orientation. My apologies if I have slighted anyone. Getting back to Gregg Bonner's post of a few days ago regarding DNA testing of BONNER's; I suspect when enough Bonner's in the USA are tested we will find several different lines of Bonner's: Gaelic/Celtic, English/Scott, German/Austrian, French, and perhaps others that we are overlooking. So... Get yourselves DNA tested so we can map out the Bonner name! :) Best Regards, Neil Bonner