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From: "Tony Fuller" <>
Subject: [HWE] Re: Isaac as a given name
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:23:06 +0100


Hi Guys

This is not quite definitely off-message but Andrew's comment about Isaac as a predominantly Jewish given name is interesting.

My partners mother was an Isaacson and everybody thought the name was Jewish. We have the family back to 1530 and not a Jewish person in sight. In fact one ancestor was the amanuensis for Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, one of the authors of the King James Bible and one of the main teachers of Laud who opposed and attempted to restrict the Huguenots in the UK.

The surname is believed to have derived from a Yorkshire Jackson family - don't ask me how tho.... via London and Cambridge, eventually to India where an Isaacson married into the Armenian community - and if you think that Huguenot families are difficult and struggle with French, try learning Western Armenian to sort out family history!!!!!!!!

Regards

Tony Fuller

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