Hi David, See Welsh Surnames, Morgan and Morgan. (here is a summary) Medieval Welsh clerks would use Anglo-Norman names as substitutes for Welsh names. Llywelyn, in its abbreviated form of Llew (possibly pron. Lew) would be identified with Lewis (anglicised form of Louis). Lewis and Llywelyn were interchangeable. A man named Llywelyn would call himself, or be called Lewis. Your example is evidence of this. Lewis would quite often, be used as the official name, hence the widespread use of Lewis as a surname in Wales. Best wishes, Deric. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rowlands" <drowlan1@bigpond.net.au> To: "Glamorgan List" <Glamorgan@rootsweb.com>; "Dyfed DYFED" <Dyfed@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:39 AM Subject: [GLA] Names: Llewelyn and Lewis > > I had heard some years ago that there was a practice some years ago > among Welsh people of adopting 'Lewis' as some sort of rough > equivalent to 'Llewelyn' (however you may wish to spell it). I can > only presume this was to have an equivalent that English tongues can > handle without difficulty. > > Now I have come across a relative (my Taid's first cousin) who I had > listed as 'John Lewis Williams' but who is mentioned in a new book as > 'John Llewelyn Williams' and I am wondering whether what I had heard > about using 'Lewis' for 'Llewelyn' was a common practice. > > Has anyone come across this practice and if it was adopted, how > widespread was it? > > David > Canberra > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >