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From: "Daniel G. McDonald" <>
Subject: Re: [SCMARION-L] Re: Randal McDaniel/Elizabeth Hodges
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 14:00:33 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000507131949.00b05ac0@popd.ix.netcom.com>


Jo and Lily -

The McDonalds and McDaniels are nearly always the same name until you get
high literacy (say 1860s). You have to go with similarity in name sounds
until then. I have many relatives who are McDaniels some times and
McDonald other times - sometimes it is McDannel, McDonnel, McDonnal, or
even McDowell occasionaly (including deviations in the census, marriage
records, land deals and all). So on the Randal case you are on the border
in terms of the time period, so the name probably got 'stuck' in either
McDonald or McDaniel around that time. But prior to that it could very
easily be McDonald.

Dan




At 01:19 PM 5/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In reply to Lily's query about Randal McDaniel/Elizabeth Hodges, I have more
>questions than data.
>
>I don't have any information regarding the Altman family.
>
>Randal McDaniel seems to be the same person also found in the Marion records
>as Randal McDonald. Randal McDonald purchased lands on Buck Swamp in 1820s
>that had been granted to Benjamin Harrelson. Perhaps you can help me clear up
>the question: were Randal McDaniel and Randal McDonald the same person?
>
>Randal McDaniel seems to have had a son named Randal McDaniel per Marion
>Probate Roll #1737 - Neill McDaniel who died in 1879. Among Neill's heirs
>were the children of his deceased brother, Randal McDaniel., to wit: Winny
>Tyner wife of Archd. Tyner, Randal McDaniel, John McDaniel, Margaret
>McDaniel, a minor. (From Utley's "Abstracts of Marion County Probate Records"
>Vol 3, published by Three Rivers Historical Society.) You probably already
>have this. I just wondered if this is your Randal.
>
>I have also noted the name of Robert Lide/Lloyd in the early Marion land
>records. He had lands on Little Pee Dee River between Mullins and Lake View,
>near the Harrelson lands. He also had lands, best I recall, down somewhere
>around the Sister Bays and Reedy Creek. This seemed unusual to me, as I had
>previously thought the Lide's were pretty well confined to Darlington County.
>Could this Robert Lide/Lloyd be connected to the wife of Samuel Hodges?
>
>Jo
>
>
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