In a message dated 7/8/05 5:25:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pillango@nwonline.net writes: > I have those two names in my family. Are they the same > name? They are in the same time period. Which would be the correct > spelling? > Margaret, My Hungarian surname list, from the book The World of Names, A Study in Hungarian Onomatology by Bela Kalman shows Szerdahely. Just to give you another spelling. Page 135 Paraphrasing, indicates it is a name derived from the day of the week that Market Places were held (szerda ~ szereda 'Wednesday'). To expound, this developed during medieval times, trade was transacted at fairs and markets. Some villages and towns even had staple rights. The right to hold markets is reflected in a number of Hungarian place-names, like Hodmezovasarhely, vasarhely being 'market place'. Marika