You wrote: > >I'd take the name for what it is 'Welcom' and that they probably didn't know how to spell it correctly. >I've never seen the name in my lines, but that doesn't mean anything. >I've got the name Reliance, Archelaus, Bethsheba...........seen the name Deliverance and some others that are really (to us anyway) bizarre! This is probably so, he married a Bashaba and the name only repeated itself one other time, one line in the family names their children after Welcom and Bashaba. Thanks for your reply. Babe in FL