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in reply to a message by oneway21001
thank you very much for your reply.
i think 'Awahtok' is from a book about the north pole - probably eskimo! quite far fetched for a sussex cabinet-maker, but there you go...
you might have something with 'Equrk' though as she was called 'Euey' for short, which is a lot like 'Euella', a name you mentioned that fits in with it.
the religious background of my family is also quite obscure as our surname (which we still have) we thought was of catholic polish origin, but it turns out that it was almost certainly jewish. either way, all the early records are from parish churches, so they must have converted before coming over, or perhaps they weren't very religious and just did what was easiest to fit in. it is unlikely that they were persecuted or felt uncomfortable about their origins as, unlike a lot of people, they never bothered anglicising their name, which must have stood out a lot!
in any case, if you want your children to 'blend in' i guess you don't call them something like 'awahtok'! good for them, i say - being odd in victorian england they must have been a set of characters!
thanks to you
emma
i think 'Awahtok' is from a book about the north pole - probably eskimo! quite far fetched for a sussex cabinet-maker, but there you go...
you might have something with 'Equrk' though as she was called 'Euey' for short, which is a lot like 'Euella', a name you mentioned that fits in with it.
the religious background of my family is also quite obscure as our surname (which we still have) we thought was of catholic polish origin, but it turns out that it was almost certainly jewish. either way, all the early records are from parish churches, so they must have converted before coming over, or perhaps they weren't very religious and just did what was easiest to fit in. it is unlikely that they were persecuted or felt uncomfortable about their origins as, unlike a lot of people, they never bothered anglicising their name, which must have stood out a lot!
in any case, if you want your children to 'blend in' i guess you don't call them something like 'awahtok'! good for them, i say - being odd in victorian england they must have been a set of characters!
thanks to you
emma
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