Anne, I learned two things last week when I was talking genealogy with a college history professor whose family was from Georgetown, SC. 1. Any French name that begins with the prefix, "De", means that family was of noble birth. So the De RENAULD name, which later was shortened to RENEAU and RENO, was a noble family from France. 2. Any Prussian family whose son was a officer in the Prussian Army in the pre-1871 time frame would have been a "Junker" and their name would be preceded with the prefix, "von." The reason being is only Junkers could be appointed officers in the Prussian Army, so my RICHTER family of Liegnitz, Schlesien, Prussia was really "von RICHTER," the possibility of which has long been passed down through the family, since we know from an 1833 letter that one of my great-uncles was an officer in the Prussian Army. I also learned something else for you SC researchers -- Horry, as in Horry County, SC, is pronounced, "Orry" and Cheraw is pronounced, "She-ra," the French pronunciation of the word. John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne W O'Brien" <aobtx@juno.com> To: <DANIEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: [DANIEL-L] Re: Bill and Price Daniel - DANIEL-D Digest V03 #475 > Sherlene: > > Your and your Uncle Homer are correct - there is no known or documented > evidence in this Daniel line (descended from Thomas Daniel, B. 1786, GA) > to any Cherry or deCherie that I can find. I checked again, and although > I' still stymied on 1786 Thomas' parentage, some of the earlier > collaterals to this Daniel line were French Huguenot immigrants into VA, > as were your deCherie/Cherry ancestors, but there appears to be no > connection other than that early location in VA. > > I believe the inquiry by Bill was precipitated by the fact that the > Cherry plantation established in 1818 with a Spanish land grant, in what > was later to be Montgomery Co, TX, before the Stephen F. Austin > Expeditions, was purchased sometime around (when - early 1900s?) by > Daniel family descendants, whose common grandfather, George Mayfield > Daniel, two of his brothers and a sister (all grandchildren of the 1786 > Thomas) first came to Montgomery Co in ca. 1868, after the Civil War. In > the late 1950s or early 1960s, a little booklet, the "History of the > Daniel Family in Texas" by my great aunt, Zonetta Almond Daniel Devine > (youngest daughter of George Mayfield Daniel), was written about this > Texas part of this Daniel line, from which Bill, Price, others and I are > directly descended, and her research may have precipitated Bill's > question to Homer Cherry. Although this booklet was privately published > (I have a numberd copy), it was reposited in the Dallas Library, and > there are some collateral inconsistencies in it disproved by later > research. Use carefully. > > Bill and Price's GGGF, Capt. Hugh Blair Johnston, would have been through > their maternal line (Nannie Blanche Partlow), back to Capt. Johnston. > > Other Daniel grandchildren (through another grandson line of Thomas) also > came into TX from AL, but into the north central part of TX, near Olney, > and I have recently received documentation on them. > > Regards, > > Anne > > > ==== DANIEL Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation for longer than 5 days? Please unsubscribe > Click on the following link and your message is ready to send > Mail Mode: > mailto:DANIEL-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > or- > Digest Mode: > mailto:DANIEL-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >