And also many slaves it seems took the surname of the person who owned them when they were born - even though they might have had other owners since - Carol York J.C.R. Hutchinson wrote: > > Actually, many ex-slaves _did_ take their former owners' surnames. > Sometimes, if they did not know what surname to take, the (white) people > recording their information just assigned them their former owners' names. > And sometimes a female ex-slave would take a different surname from that of > her husband, even though they were legally married. > > Look at the census records for the area and see how many surnames were > shared by both black and white families in the same area. In the 1880 > census of Williamsburg County, I ran across a man who had both his white > family and his mixed family all living under the same roof. The mother of > the mulatto children were listed at the man's concubine. > > Judith Reesor Hutchinson > > ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > To unsubcribe from the SCSumter mailing list send a one word message, unsubscribe to: > SCSumter-L-Request@rootsweb > If you are subscribed to the Digest mode send your unsubcribe message to: > SCSumter-D-request@rootsweb.com