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. > >----- 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 > > >> 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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html