Forward - FYI Mary Ann >============================================================ >A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this >search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >============================================================ >Source: KAHLER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Kahler] spellings > > >Here are two additional spellings. > >This one was on some old documents from about 1820. >June 5,1790; Frederick Kahler to George Crumley, both of Sullivan Co.; 60 >pounds NC money for 100 acres on the south side of the Holston River on >Weavers Creek with appurtenances; wit. by J. Hall; reg. June 14, 1790. >(Sul. Co. deed list pg. 397) > >The actual deed shows the following spelling. >I recently plotted Frederick Keiller's original 1787 tract which was divided >into three parcels and sold to George Crumley, Able Edwards and Abraham >Vanderventer in 1788. By plotting all four tracts, I was able to tie to the >meandering Holston River in three places, thereby fixing the location of >George Crumley's farm fairly accurately. > >BTW, the Crumley (originally Gramlich) name has more spellings than I can >track. > >Ken > >At 10:28 AM 03/22/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >Because I had a person spell our surname as GULER recently, > >I have been looking, once again, at the many spelling > >variations, that we run across, for this name. (FWIW, we > >happen to pronounce our name as COALER.) > > > >Let us, for this particular discussion, assume that the name > >was KÖHLER at sometime in the past. > > > >One way that a clerk might have written the name is KOHLER. > >>From this, we can use the common sense <G> of genealogy to > >look at some of the possible spelling changes. Let's go back > >to the 101 class. Any consonant might have changed for a > >"look-a-like" or a "sound-a-like". And, of course, any vowel > >accidentally, or on the part of a clerk trying to be > >efficient & correct, could have been changed for another. > > > >So, for example, we might go this way, through a set of > >changes: > >Kohler = Koller = Coller > > > >And, then, many times vowels were added for various reasons: > >Kohler = Koller = Coller = Collier > > > >(I am not suggesting here that COLLIER is always/ever an > >alternate spelling. Just that it is entirely possible that > >the name could turn up spelled this way.) > > > >Similarly, we might have a chain looking like: > >Kohler = Rohler = Ronler > >because of the sometimes look-a-like letters (in cursive > >writing) of K/R and h/n. I have not happen to run across the > >name Ronler, but we must not rule this out when we are > >searching. > > > >Kohler = Koller = Roller I think that we have even > >discussed this spelling in the past on one or more of these > >KÖHLER lists. > > > >Kohler = Cohler = Coller = Collar = Callar = Kallor = Kaylor > >= Kayler = Kailler = ??? > > > >Kohler = Kahler = Kaler = Caler = Caller = Oaller = Gallar = > >Galiar = ??? > > > >Kohler = Rohlar = Rallar = Roller = ??? > > > >This is just a small sampling of the many, many changes that > >may have occurred from one clerk to another and from one > >document to another. I have not found the time to go through > >any books to look for all of these different spellings to > >check on whether all of them are 'valid' spellings of names > >used today. But, I do know that even in today's world.... > >and even though we slowly and distinctly spell the name > >KOHLER --which we happen to pronounce like COALER-- for > >people, we very often get COHLER and COLER. (I even had a > >person come up with GULER recently... *after* I had spelled > >it for her more than once.) > > > >Discussions welcomed. (I know that this is tax-season and we > >are all busy, but let's see what we can squeeze in to our > >days.) This is fun stuff. > > > > ~~Leslie [Bridges] Kohler > > - ------------------------------------------------------ Mary Ann Kaylor & Shirley Aleguas In IL - Morgan Area Genealogical Association & Waverly GHS http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html Dedicated to Free Online Resources from West Central IL MAGA Mailing List: ILMAGA-L-request@rootsweb.com My Family Genealogy http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html