A quick note for VA Terrell genealogists: Terrell's Mountain is also found
southwest of Chapel Hill, on Jones Jerry Rd, straddling the Orange-Chatham
County line. When Johnston and Sherman created an armistice preparatory to
Johnston's surrender, Terrell's Mountain anchored the south end of the cease
fire line between the armies. Of course, the area was settled to a large
degree by folks from Orange Co, VA coming down any one of two or three
common migration paths that dumped them into the Carolina backcountry on the
upper Neuse, Cape Fear, and Yadkin drainages. Perhaps some of the missing
Terrell's made it to the 'little slice of heaven' to the south of VA.
tom
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:21 PM
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Subject: Re: OLD PRONUNCIATIONS OF NAMES
Thank you Nancy. I have looked at some of those sites. That's an
interesting reference to
Zachary
Taylor. My understanding is that Virginia Terrell's descend from a single
immigrant,
Richmond Terrell
in the mid-17th century in New Kent. They spread out to Hanover, Louisa and
Orange
Counties
initially. I never know how to interpret many of the geneology sites since
there are so few
accurate
references. Between the burning of the New Kent courthouse in the 1750s and
the Civil War
destruction, there aren't a whole lot of records and it is hard to trace
descent. I know my
family didn't
go far from NK but we still don't have an accurate trace beyond 5
generations.
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, January 7, 2007 11:49 am
Subject: Re: OLD PRONUNCIATIONS OF NAMES
> 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
>
> -------
> 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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