Dear Carole and all, One last email before I get to work. Looking in the current UK phone directory I do find some Bradlaugh's. Only a few, but that contrasts with *no* Breedloves (haven't any of our cousins ever gone there to live?). Similarly, the English 1851 census has a household of Bradlaugh, and a household of Bradlough, each in Middlesex county. So all of that's consistent with a Bradlaugh-to-Breedlove switch, though obviously not any sort of proof. Cheers, Marc Breedlove At 10:48 PM 6/13/99 -0700, Carole L. Colquehoun wrote: >Marc, > >The name might have been changed from Bradlaugh in 1600 Virginia to >Breedlove and stayed that way according to Martha Kahn (MNBKahn@aol.com). >Source Breedlove e-mail list on Prodigy 10/14/97. In that case, they must >have come from Britain. > >I have also read, in Ellen Byrne's notes or book (I think), that it could be >a German name meaning 'hunter of wolves." In that case, they came over at >some point from Germany. > >I think we need a linguist. :-) > >Carole C. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Marc Breedlove <breedsm@socrates.berkeley.edu> >To: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 1:10 PM >Subject: [BREEDLOVE-L] before Charles B of VA > > >> Dear Breedlove list members, >> >> A subject I haven't seen come up here since I joined this list (only a few >> months ago) is where Charles Breedlove b1688 in VA came from. I had >> assumed from the UK, but doing a web search of telephone numbers, at >> several sites, including: >> http://www.lookupuk.com/phone.html >> >> turned up absolutely no Breedloves in the UK at all. Maybe they all have >> unlisted numbers, or maybe they died out there lately... >> >> But a search of the 1851 census in England at: >> http://rontay.digiweb.com/surnames/Default.htm >> >> similarly brought up no Breedloves (nor Breadloves, but there were several >> Breed's). So maybe they died out in Eng before 1851, or maybe Chas >> Breedlove didn't come from England. >> >> So is there another country Chas Breedlove might have come from to VA? >> What do we know? >> >> Thanks, >> Marc Breedlove >> >> ---------------------------- >> Marc Breedlove >> breedsm@socrates.berkeley.edu >> Psychology Department >> 3210 Tolman Hall >> UC Berkeley >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 >> (510) 642-8615 >> fax 642-5293 >> lab 642-2299 >> > > >