Re: spelling of Loveless and Lovelace... There are several issues connected with the spelling issue. 1) Spelling was not consistent and often phonetic until well into the 1900s. 2) in the 1700s and 1800s in Great Britain and the US, many people could not write their own names. If you have ever looked at legal documents, you might see the signer's mark - usually an "X". The name is the written by an official who may or may not know how the name should be spelled and often did not think twice about it. That is why you might see a name spelled differently form era to era, when the city clerk or church warden position changed to another person. 3) and of course the family splits may have had something to do with it, but I suspect it may be far less an occurrence than we might imagine. Bonnie Fletcher Eggert descendant of Elijah and Hannah Spalding Loveless of NY