"Glenn Brown" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Hi everyone > > I'm seeking help about the likely spelling of my gg grandfather's name. > > His marriage certificate and death certificate show his name as Augustus > William Sunstream but after arriving in Australia in 1860s he was commonly > known as Charles Brown. He worked as a mariner and harbour master in > Tasmania.until his death in 1929 > > Oral history refers to him as "the Dane' although another branch of the > family believed him to be Norwegian. It is known that he spoke english with > an accent and conversed a language other than english with visiting sea > captains. > > The difficulty I have is determining where he was actually from. The name > Sunstream I'm guessing is an anglicisation - but of what? I've seen > listings of the name Sunstrem in Denmark which might be a candidate but am > unsure of the pronunciation. Does anyone have any thought about likely > surnames, especially those that sound phonetically like Sunstream? http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=sundstr%F8m+&btnG=Google+Search Sundstrøm silent d usually strøm means current sund a sound as in a bit of the sea Hugh W