That is one presumption. ARONHOLTs were from ENG to VA 1700-ish. ARONHOLT descendants owned the land containing the ARONOLD Cemetary -- in the 1700s. Anyone else every heard/found anything about ARNOLD as ARONHOLT or similar spelling??? ----- Original Message ----- From: <GLRadcliffe@aol.com> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Arnold - Origin and meaning > Arnold is an English name. While there are French and German > versions of the name, Arnold remains English. The word is > translated to mean "Eagle-Gracious," Eagle-Mighty" and related > translations. > > While it is possible that a German immigrant named Aronholt changed his > name or had it changed to Arnold, there is every reason to believe > that the progenitor of this family was English. > > There were Arnolds in Virginia in the 1700s and also in England > many hundreds of years ago. > > Gary Radcliffe > glradcliffe@aol.com >