Another website that has just become live that might be useful is the new
British Surname Profiler at University College, London. This will show you
the historical distribution of surnames originating in the British Isles
and whether their roots are English, Scottish or Irish or originally from
abroad. The site can be found at
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/index.php?p=familyname

Incidentally, Rolfe is an English name with a particular regional
distribtion, being found almost exclusively in the south east of England.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John P. Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:11 PM
>Subject: Re: MALICK'S PIRATES OF THE CHESAPEAKE
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>> Not to change the subject, totally. However I have a very serious
>> question.
>> Is it possible that ROLFE is not a Rolfe, but ROSSE. I cannot find any
>> Rolfe's in the English name books and since I am little familiar with
the
>> Germanic script of this time. The double SS format would look Ro"lf"e
>> instead off the spelling ROSSE.
>> Can any of you help me out.
>> Thank you,
>>
>> John Philip Adams
>>

Dr Matthew C. Ward
University of Dundee
Dundee, DD1 4HN
SCOTLAND

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