Phyllis J. Bauer wrote: > > That does not mean their name wasn't originally MAUPIN. Many of our > ancestors were illiterate and didn't even KNOW how their name was to be > spelled. It was up to the "officials" who could read and write to write it > down the way they thought it should be written. Of course, most of them > were not far ahead of the non-readers and writers, as they spelled > phonetically. Thus, you sometimes have different spellings of the same > name within the same family. > > It is reasonable to me, that if an illiterate person had something as > important as a deed for land with his name spelled as MOPPIN, because that > is the way the County Clerk spelled it, he would prefer that spelling if > and when he or his children learned to read and write, thus for generations > to come the name would be spelled as MOPPIN rather than MAUPIN. > > Our ancestors and the officials making the records were seldom fussy about > how their names were spelled. In the years of my research experience, I've > seen records with several spellings of the same name within the same > document! > > Just about anything is possible as we try to put the lives of our ancestors > back together so we can know them better. Only research on these > particular families could/would prove if they were connected to the > MAUPINs. > > Phyllis J. Bauer > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 11/2/00 at 8:38 AM James Watson wrote: > > >I was reading the email from Madge about the name "Moppin." At the > >reunion, Bill Albertson brought up the spelling of either Moppin or > >Mappin and stated that he believed that they were not our Maupins. I > >think that his reasoning went something like this, but my memory may not > >be accurate: At one time, one of the Maupins was a census taker and he > >listed someone with the name Moppin or Mappin as living in a certain > >place. Bill reasoned, and it made sense to me, that if that had been a > >Maupin, he would have corrected the spelling or made some mention of it. > > > >Denise > > > > > >==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > >RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the > author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > ><http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> Phyllis--That is just what my husband said. He said that may also be the reason that we see both Quantrell and Quantrill. Love, Denise