Munro & Monroe
HiNot sure if this site is American! being of Scots lineage my understanding of Monroe is that this is a later derivative of the original Scots form from the Clan Munro of Foulis not the other way round on your otherwise excellent website.Thanks
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My guess is that we're up against the dreaded Minim Letters ...If you write letters like n, u, i, m in medieval script, or in cursive sometimes, it's very hard to tell them apart; the word 'minim' is a prime example if you leave the dots off the i letters, and those dots are a late development.Which is why our intelligent ancestors often substituted an o for a u or an i - to make it easier to read. That would certainly help for Monroe! As it did for Home (instead of Hume), and women, which was sometimes written as: wymmen, but that never caught on.Nice little thingies, minim letters - once you're alert to them, they pop up everywhere.All the best
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Actually, this site is Canadian.a
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