I would guess it was the accent as heard by the record takers. They wrote down what they heard. A lot of names had that happen. Pat > Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:51:24 -0500 > From: lt0168@epix.net > To: paallegh@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ALL] Name changes > > Hi group: > One of my lines is a Forrester family that was in Allegheny City. I > found where they were buried in Union Dale Cemetery. On one of the > headstones it has that he was born in Kircolm, Scotland. His brother has > that he was born in Gallowayshire Scotland. Gallowayshire is the county > where Kirkcolm is located. I got the church records from the Kirkcolm > church and found the baptismal and marriage records for the family, > except they were all listed as Foster. Then I found the immigration > record for the parents and one son, which again listed them as Foster. > But once they arrived in the US all of the records list them as > Forrester, including the headstone for the parents. > Any idea why the family would have changed names when they got here? > > Larry > -- > My genealogy page > http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ > Allegheny County Maps page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/ > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message