In a message dated 6/6/03 9:21:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > The Chauvin (That's as close as > I can get to the original spelling.) has been spelled so many different ways > that Garvin could be a variant. > thanks, but I don't think so. This crowd came from Scotland via Ireland with this Scottish name pretty well intact. Now, I have had it misspelled many ways over the years...