Message text written by INTERNET:BROYLES-L@rootsweb.com >At 01:23 05/13/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Yes, all BROYLES in America are descendants of John BROYLES George, How do we KNOW that? Isn't there a chance that some immigrant named BROYLES came across that we don't know about? Roy Patton < Dear Roy, There never was an immigrant named "Broyles". That is an Anglicized version of our ancestors. Of later immigrants, especially in MO in the mid to late 1800s there were "Bruhl", "Breil", "Brohl", "Brill", etc. The "u" and "o" spellings had an umlaut. I am convinced that as time passed in America the spelling became the English family spelling of "Boyles" with an "r" added to sound like our German family annuciation "Broyles". This is definitely an Anglicized name. It was never the original German spelling for even our Germanna family. Jim Albin