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    1. HOGSTON vs. HOUSTON
    2. Lisa Conrad
    3. Would SKS know if there was any way that the pronunciation of HOUSTON could ever be misheard or misconstrued by someone hearing this surname said out loud, as sounding like "HOGSTON" (in reference to clerks or ministers that notated BMDs in the 19th-century OPRs in particular)... I have transcripts from statutory death registers, dated 1887 and 1897, that list a woman's maiden surname as "HOUSTON"... and yet her 1835 marriage entry in the Old Parish Register distinctly has her surname as "HOGSTON". I guess what I am asking, and it is a long shot, is: how does one pronounce "Hogston" in Caithness (from whence this woman came)... is it "Hog-ston", rhyming with "Fog- etc." ? Or could Hogston in some way sound like "Houston"? Thank you! - Lisa

    05/25/2005 11:00:16