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From: "Roberta J. Estes" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] German Surname?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:24:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200508011727.j71HRBjU006792@mail.rootsweb.com>


I've seen several of my names with the trailing e and then without,
sometimes in the same document, and I've decided that maybe it was just
a curly-que - a flourish.

Roberta

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Bullock [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:18 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [DNA] German Surname?

I've seen neither rhyme nor reason for the inclusion of the silent "e"
at
the end of an English surname. The final "e" seemed to be used more
often
in the 17th and earlier centuries in England. Many, such as the family
of
immigrant Chad Browne (ca. 1600-1663) of Providence, Rhode Island,
dropped
it in subsequent generations.

I have found my own surname spelled "Bullocke" in many of the early
English
records. It depended on who recorded the name, not how the family may
have
spelled it. The immigrant Richard Bullock (ca. 1622-1667) was a town
clerk
in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, and he was consistent in the
"Bullock" spelling when he signed documents.



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