Dear Carole and all, Hmm.... a search of the LDS site, www.familysearch.org turns up quite a few Bradlaugh (and Bradlaw, Bradlow, Bradlough). This engine requires that you put in a first name, so I tried Thomas Bradlaugh and got over a dozen "hits". Interestingly, there were all in England, none in the US. The search also pulled up some "Bradley"s and, of course, there were loads of those in the US. It's easy to imagine Bradlaugh was pronounced "Bradluff", but the only thing I really know about English is that it is very irregular in terms of predicting, from the letters of a word, how it is pronounced. Thanks to all for the replies. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some trove of Breedloves in the UK. 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