Hi! My two cents worth... I had speculated earlier that I wondered if it could actually read Maria on the original, if the writing was really poor, but I can also easily see how Anna could be made from Auria - again with poor writing. I guess we'll have to purchase a copy of the will eventually to see what the original looks like....... The only drawback with it being the name Anna is that there is already a sister Hannah, and "back in the day", those two names could be interchangeable, and both weren't often used in the same family. [Not a rule etched in stone, however.....] Stephen On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Arlene Reeves <arkretired@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Thanks for the info. > > So in a transcribed list, it could be transcribed Russell, Rufsel, or > Rujsel I guess. What do you think about the Auria/ Aurelia possibilities? > >

My 1/2 cent's worth with regard to "Anna" and "Hannah" tending not to be names used for siblings: As near as I could tell when I was noodling around the Finger Lakes region, there appeared to be several different Van Arnam/Van Normans families in the mid 1800's. At least two were connected to each other because one girl gave a book to her cousin (the link's gone now, by the way) although I couldn't tell to which family either child belonged. All of which is kind of a preface to reminding that kids in the same family weren't necessarily siblings. I have at least two initially confusing instances later on in which kids from one family for some reason were clearly living with their father's brother. (There are others where they're living with their father's married sister but then the situation is much more obvious.) --pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Wood" <stephe.w300@gmail.com> To: <vannorman@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Ana VanArnam married to Cornelius Russell > Hi! > > My two cents worth... > > I had speculated earlier that I wondered if it could actually read > Maria on the original, if the writing was really poor, but I can also > easily > see how Anna could be made from Auria - again with poor writing. I guess > we'll have to purchase a copy of the will eventually to see what the > original looks like....... > > The only drawback with it being the name Anna is that there is already > a sister Hannah, and "back in the day", those two names could be > interchangeable, and both weren't often used in the same family. [Not a > rule > etched in stone, however.....] > > Stephen > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Arlene Reeves > <arkretired@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the info. >> >> So in a transcribed list, it could be transcribed Russell, Rufsel, or >> Rujsel I guess. What do you think about the Auria/ Aurelia >> possibilities? >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >