This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBWBAEB/51 Message Board Post: I am finding strong evidence that some Wesner families in about 1800 Berks/Lancaster/Cumberland Counties, Pa. who were using the Wesner name began using the Webner name. According to a 1929 researcher, John and Peter Webner then returned to the Wesner name on their tombstones. Does anyone have any evidence to contribute to this? www.home.earthlink.net/~newebner/roots/roots.html
I think that the Webner spelling is based on the German script of double-s. WeBner (with some frills or embellishments to the B) is actually Wessner, one of the common spellings of Wesner. If someone wrote WeBner for Wessner, English-speaking/writing folks may just think it Webner. )Another example of the use of double-s is in old English and in Colonial America where double-s looked like "Fs" with the "F" having some frills to it. At least two languages write double-s ("ss") as looking like another letter of the alphabet.) So, I can see how an immigrant to America writing his name WeBner would have it interpreted as Webner instead of Wessner. Once they received the label of Webner during naturalization, they probably just kept it that way. I hope I am making sense here. Brenda Wesner bridgebuff@earthlink.net wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBWBAEB/51 > >Message Board Post: > >I am finding strong evidence that some Wesner families in about 1800 Berks/Lancaster/Cumberland Counties, Pa. who were using the Wesner name began using the Webner name. According to a 1929 researcher, John and Peter Webner then returned to the Wesner name on their tombstones. Does anyone have any evidence to contribute to this? > >www.home.earthlink.net/~newebner/roots/roots.html > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > >