This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goad, Swick, Westmoreland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kIZ.2ACEB/696.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Linda, I am interested in any information you might have as to where the name "Swick" came from in your Grandfathers name. I believe that he was named after a friend and relative of his father George W. Goad. George Goad's sister was Sarah Ann Goad, who was married to George W. Swick, had several children and later married Wiley Westmoreland. Believe that her only surviving child was Naomi Susan Swick who later married a George H. Davis. Would like more information as to where the Swick name originally came from or who were parents of George W. Swick. Think that the name was German and might have originally been Zwick. Any help appreciated. Tony