----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 10 December, 1999 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [ILGALLAT] Re: McGehee Family > Hi, It is possible that Nancy Cunnington could be Cunningham. The name was > given to the coroner when Samuel died, by his half brother, Millage, called > Tom. Tom could have easily misunderstood the pronunciation of the name. > Elizabeth Very possible... it also could have been misunderstood, by the person doing the writing (if other than the person giving the info)... (and when census were done, the enumerators sometimes wrote it completely different, depending on their dialect or phonetically, i.e. KEATON and CAYTON... with a southern draw.... took me a long time to catch that one :-) Best Regards, Trev