Mamie Tate wrote: > Just for curiosity sake, I tried to check in my German to English pocket size dictionary. > The word breed is Zucht. > Züchten is breeder. > liebe is love. > hunter is Jäger > wolf is wolf > This is straight definitions and does not account for the compounding >of the words. It could entirely change the spelling, I have no idea. Doomsday book, pg 272b, in Derbyshire County, Hamenstan Wap., or shire, in the village of Essenbvrne there is listed a person by the name of BREDELOUUE paying taxes on two carucates of Crown Land. Pg 343, Col. 2, in Lincolnshire County, Calsvad Wapent, in Lavesbi village there is listed a person named BREDELOU paying taxes on nine carucates of land in "Epi Baiocensis". It appears that these early land holders were descendants of Danish warriors mentioned in Alfred's treaty with Guthrun in 878, who were descendants of Germanic and Teutonic tribes. It has been my own experience from copying all of the Breedlove's from the 1790-1920 censuses, that the closest variant spelling has been BREEDLOW. Everyone that I have found with that spelling on the censuses was born in GERMANY!!! The Breedlove Coat of Arms that Hope Perry Breedlove had on his wall were ascribed to a family named BREDELOW, of Pomerania, who were confirmed in the rank of Baron in 1862. Pomerania was in Prussia, on the south coast of the Baltic Sea, and was a part of the German Empire. Having said all this, I don't believe Charles Breedlove came from either England or Germany. Hope Perry and I talked about similar family legends that we had from our different branches of the Breedlove line, that Charles Breedlove changed his orginal name to Breedlove to avoid persecution for one reason or another, possibly religious. Even further, his name may not have been Charles originally! Charles may have come from England, but his orginal name was nothing like BREEDLOVE. Surely after over 50 years of combined research on his origins, someone would have found some similar name in English records, and THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED, even by noted genealogists in England. One glimmer of hope in finding the origins of Charles Breedlove would be for a handwriting expert to examine the actual writing of Charles, as each country has its own style of teaching penmanship. However all of the court documents I have found seem to be written by some court clerk, rather than by Charles himself. Does anyone know of any extant documents that have the actual writing or signature of Charles Breedlove???? For what it's worth, my best guess is Wales. Tom King