I saw some Pharo female marriages in Burlington County, if that helps any. Nancy > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Pangburn, Pharo, Pharos > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1078.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > sorry--this did not post in the right place. here I go again: > > yes some do appear to Bible names---however, Catholics did not generally go for > that custom at that time. And Pangburns at this time were Catholic. How that > happened I don't have a clue either as the early records of Pangburns in NJ > indicate they were Quaker(Friends) or other VERY Protestant religions. The Gypsy > thing would account for both the names and the Catholic religion. And I have > found out anecdotally that southern NJ did have a few Gypsy camps, German > Chickeners and Dutch--both of which the last name Pharo was a possibility. Then > again the Pharos was Greek Orthodox, and many when they came to this country as > immigrants ended up converting to roman because there were no churches here for > them. Mary Eva was the first generation I know for sure was Catholic and my > grandfather George Oscar was also Catholic(she was his grandmother)--before that > I don't really know. And I do know one other thing--Mary eva was noted for her > exotic ethnicity---my father remembers seeing he! > r when has was very small and she had jet black hair with no gray in it and it > dragged the ground--she was less than 5 feet tall--when she died they cut her > hair and braided it into a key chain of sorts that mysteriously disappeared > around the time of my grandfather's death in 1969. It was rumored she was native > American but there is no proof of that and I am not the only who was looking on > that score(even years ago in Pangburn, Arkansas the local historian knew of > this). > I personally knew of and went to school with 'Gypsies' by the last name of > Stanley and back in the time of Samuel and Mary Eva, there was still a > prejudiced stigma attached--so it would not be uncommon to change some facts.I > believe the early Greek settlers came across the same prejudice. > > Also-another tibit- my Aunt Sharon married another Blizzard and their daughter > married a Stiles. > Ravyn > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >