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
David For my own experience in Wales it tends to be more that people shorten Llewelyn to "Llew" or "Lew" or "Lou". So it maybe that outstide of Wales this has been assumed/become "Lewis" Of course others may have different experiences!] Megan ________________________________ From: David Rowlands <drowlan1@bigpond.net.au> To: Glamorgan List <Glamorgan@rootsweb.com>; Dyfed DYFED <Dyfed@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, 21 January, 2010 8:39:32 Subject: [Dyfed] 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 ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message