One of my best friends was a Terrell before she got married. She has
some relationship through marriage to President Zachary Taylor. A
cousin has a pair of his shoe buckles. Your family has quite a long
history, there are many sources on the web, have you looked them up?
Prominent and from London, I believe. There was a small foothill here
in Orange County that was known as Terrell's Mountain. And in the
early 1900s, I think it was, a ne'er do well Terrell fell asleep,
caught his house on fire, which spread and nearly burned up the
entire town of Orange.
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Terrell wrote:
> Growing up I used to cringe hearing my name pronounced Ter-rell.
> We always said it as a
> single
> syllable. It wasn't until I starting doing some research and
> speaking with other Terrells that I
> found
> that the English spelling, Tyrrell was, indeed, pronounced Ti-rel.
> I suspect that 50 years of
> exposure
> to homogenized media and midwestern flat accents may have affected
> much of our memory
> of
> regional American accents and pronunciations.
> Bruce Ti-rel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, January 7, 2007 9:24 am
> Subject: OLD PRONUNCIATIONS OF NAMES
>
>> I don't know if you folks realize it but one can subscribe for
>> about $50.00
>> per year to the William & Mary Quarterly Online and it is downright
>> fun!Almost every, if not all, issue of the Quarterly is on there
>> and there are
>> some fascinating articles from the days when the Quarterly did a
>> lot of
>> genealogical work. One of the issues has an article on the old
>> pronunciations of Virginia names and that is like a trip down
>> memory lane! I
>> live in York County but I grew up in Warwick County which was and
>> shouldstill be pronounced "Warrick" but newcomers (who seem to be
>> everywhere now)
>> insist on saying, "Wor-WICK", which is an abomination to my ears.
>> Old timers
>> in Yorktown and York County pronounce "York" like "Yawk". A few
>> years ago I
>> was visiting in Yorkshire England and I was tickled to hear those
>> peoplepronounce the word "yawk". Another word that Yorkshire people
>> say the way I
>> remember it being pronounced when I was growing up was "chimney".
>> They say
>> "chimley" which is how I said it until I went to school and was
>> taught to
>> say it the way it is spelled. Recently I was visiting in Lynchburg
>> and heard
>> a man say "Charlottesville" like "Shaw-vul". And he wasn't even
>> very old!
>> Baby-boomer vintage.
>> Some of the names listed in the Quarterly comparing names with
>> pronunciationare:
>> Spelt:
>> ARMISTEAD pronounced UMSTEAD
>> BERKELEY.......................BARKLEY or BARTLETT
>> BERNARD.........................BARNETT
>> BROCKENBROUGH........BROKENBUROUGH
>> BLOUNT........................... BLUNT
>> BURWELL.........................BURRELL
>> BOOTH..............................BOWTHE
>> CALLOWHILL..................CARROLL
>> CHAMBERLAINE.............CHAUMBERLIN
>> CHISMAN.........................CHEESEMAN
>> CRENSHAW......................GRAINGER
>> DEGGE or DEGGES...........DIGGS
>> DREWRY............................DRUITT
>> ENROUGHTY.................... DARBY
>> FARRAR-FERRER..............FARR
>> FAUNTLEROY...................FANTILROY
>> FONTAINE,,.......................FOUNTIN
>> FULGHAM..........................FULLJUM
>> GEDDY................................GADDY
>> GILLIAM.............................GILLAM
>> GOODWIN..........................GOODIN
>> GOOCH...............................GOUGE
>> HAIRSTON..........................HARSTON
>> HEYWARD..........................HOWARD
>> HAUGHTON-HAWTHORNE........................HORTON
>> HARWOOD.........................HAROD
>> IRONMONGER...................MONGER
>> JAMES..................................JEEMES
>> LANGHORNE......................LANGON
>> LEIGH...................................LEE
>> MALLICOTE.......................MALICUT
>> MAURY...............................MURRY
>> MICHEAUX.........................MISHER
>> MONTFORD-MUNFORD...MUMFORD
>> PATRICK.............................PARTRICK
>> RANDOLPH.........................RANDALL
>> SEWELL-SEAWELL............SOWEL
>> TALIAFERRO......................TOLIVER
>>
>> That's a few listed.
>> When I send this to the List I don't know what format it will come
>> throughas but I did my best to line everything up clearly.
>>
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