Hello, Pleasants is also a family surname. I taught a young lady with the surname Pleaseants here in York County and her father's family was from Albmarle County. Mosbycat -----Original Message----- From: MAUPIN REUNION 2000 <maupinreunion@par1.net> To: MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-L] An interesting tidbit from the reunion >Good Morning Group!!! > >Back home, back online!!! Now I can correct and adjust all those errors I >made at the Reunion on booklets, directories, reservations, pictures, etc. >If you have or need corrections or adjustments please e-mail me privately. > >Now back the the name "Pleasant". For about ten years I searched for the >"Pleasant" >family connection, found none!! Then while working in the White Hall area >was informed that the large plantation of the Wyant/Wiant family was named >"Pleasant >Retreat". The Wyants did not use this name in their family, but several of >the families owning land with a two mile radius did. The Maupins, Ewells, >Jarmans, and Ballards. >The Ewell parcel adjoined this plantation. Shelton Key is on this Ewell >line. I have it >almost complete, then I found that someone had given me so information that >was not >accurate. Maxey Ewells wife was Ann Mullins, but she was not Matthews >daughter, she >was John Mullin's daughter. So now I have over three thousand people who >are not Maupins. Well I plan to share them with Shelton Keys, so all my >work was not go unused. > >William >----- Original Message ----- >From: Ann & Glenn Bittner <mosbycat@inna.net> >To: <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:10 PM >Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-L] An interesting tidbit from the reunion > > >> Hello, >> Pleasant is a name found frequently in Henrico and Albemarle County, both >> as a first name and as a surname. They may have named the child for the >> place, but Bill was most likely right about the origin of the name >> Pleasant.......mosbycat >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Watson <jdwatson@erols.com> >> To: MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Sunday, November 05, 2000 8:10 PM >> Subject: [MAUPIN-L] An interesting tidbit from the reunion >> >> >> >I was just looking through Dorothy's book and saw the name Pleasant >> >Maupin. It jogged my memory on something Bill said. He said that >> >originally they thought that Pleasant was maybe a surname, but it turned >> >out that one of the Maupins had a place called "Pleasant Retreat." And >> >that's where the name Pleasant comes from. I thought it was interesting >> >that they would name their children for a place. >> > >> >Love, Denise >> > >> > >> >==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== >> >Please don't post private information about living people without >> permission. All posts are archives. To search RootsWeb list archives: >> ><http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== >> Please don't post private information about living people without >permission. All posts are archives. To search RootsWeb list archives: >> <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html> >> > > >==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== >How do you join Ancestry or do online shopping so that RootsWeb gets a percentage? Start here <http://www.rootsweb.com/~affiliate/> and click on the link for Genealogy, Autos, Books, etc. on the left side of the page. Support RootsWeb for free! > >