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ArchivesRe: Looking for ethnic origin of name-group: Alafare, Reden, Lot, Shadrack, Alford, Etheldred
in reply to a message by jennifer
I doubt if Alafare is related to those names because it seems to always be female, and those names seems to always be male.
I did just find a discussion on a genealogy site noting that there is now a lot of DNA evidence (as well as historical evidence from banishment records in Scotland and England) that Romanichal (British gypsies) were definitely present in colonial America, especially in Virginia and Maryland, so that makes the idea that Alafair might originally be a Roma name a bit more plausible:
http://dnacommunities.com/cgi-bin/forums/gforum.cgi?post=1697;guest=2973662
I did just find a discussion on a genealogy site noting that there is now a lot of DNA evidence (as well as historical evidence from banishment records in Scotland and England) that Romanichal (British gypsies) were definitely present in colonial America, especially in Virginia and Maryland, so that makes the idea that Alafair might originally be a Roma name a bit more plausible:
http://dnacommunities.com/cgi-bin/forums/gforum.cgi?post=1697;guest=2973662
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