I'm interested to know myself. I've seen quite a few Telesphorus's (latin version) in records, and assumed it was just one of those wickedly cool old names that had no English translation. I looked up Telly Savalas (the actor) but his birthname was Aristotle (another wickedly cool name) :). Elyssa polandbordersurnames-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > 4. Re: English for name "Teclesphor" (DOLCAR30@aol.com) > > In going thru birth records from Gorzno, Poland, I ran across this given > name "TECLESPHOR". It appears to have Greek roots, I would think, but am not > sure. Does anyone have an interpretation of this? > > Many thanks, Dolores

Dolores, If you can provide an image of the original, I think it might help. This is not a name that is recognizable to me. Cheers, Roman Elyssa Kowalinski wrote: > I'm interested to know myself. I've seen quite a few Telesphorus's (latin version) in records, and assumed it was just one of those wickedly cool old names that had no English translation. I looked up Telly Savalas (the > actor) but his birthname was Aristotle (another wickedly cool name) :). > > Elyssa > > polandbordersurnames-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> 4. Re: English for name "Teclesphor" (DOLCAR30@aol.com) >> >> In going thru birth records from Gorzno, Poland, I ran across this given >> name "TECLESPHOR". It appears to have Greek roots, I would think, but am not >> sure. Does anyone have an interpretation of this? >> >> Many thanks, Dolores >