--WebTV-Mail-9347-630 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Meant for this to go to the list also. Nola --WebTV-Mail-9347-630 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQ9Ngopb2kwULdvHMRI+rBXADna8wIUCFECSW5z3OMa2KrAg0wazuppXzE= From: PAYNE9@webtv.net (PAYNE FAMILY) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:53:39 -0800 (PST) To: Twayd@aol.com Subject: Re: Forward from German list: Pein Pine Paine surname--PAYNES FROM ENG Message-ID: <25680-382897E3-1504@storefull-156.iap.bryant.webtv.net> In-Reply-To: Twayd@aol.com's message of Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:57 EST Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) HI LISTERS: These thoughts on the German family of our surname are interesting. In re to our family from England, I would like to add and hopefully there is someone more knowledgable --that it is my understandiing that the name originated from the word PAGAN. This was attached to unrelated peoples, I believe Vikings, who were allowed to settle in the English countryside in exchange for joining the church (donot know if Catholic or Church of England). When these peoples refused, they were labeled pagans, unchurched, and then the name evolved into the different spellings....Pain, Pane, Pagne, Pyne, Payne, etc.. Many times the name was spelled several different ways in the same Courthouse as with our Flavius Josephus PAYNE (b. 1835 VA) in Grundy Co., MO.... Anyone with any more thoughts on our name? Nola Payne in WA Surnames: PAYNE,DYER,DEAN,BELCHER,WISER, COTTON;RANKIN,NEFF,LOPER,DEWITT, WOLFE,BUSER,RIDLEY,DAY,CONGER, POND,FAIRBANKS,ROBINSON,BOWIE, WEBBER,SMALLEY,STROUT, HENDERSON, NORTON,MADDISON Alternate Email Addresses: NLPfromWA@webtv.net, NLP-COLONIES2WA@webtv.net, mompayne2@hotmail.com --WebTV-Mail-9347-630--