To: decimon; SunkenCiv; blam
My whole family's Welsh. The ancestral castle has the same name as my grandmother's maiden name - Powys (Powers).
My family were probably fieldhands or stable boys. I've been tested and I have one of the Basque markers.
24 posted on
04/22/2009 5:19:46 AM PDT by
CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
My family were probably fieldhands or stable boys.You're the one? I knew there had to be someone derived of who cleaned the stables. ;-)
26 posted on
04/22/2009 5:44:31 AM PDT by
decimon
To: CholeraJoe
That’s generally the case, that surnames indicate association with a place rather than some big-shot noble house. My German great-grandparents met when both worked for some baron’s household.
33 posted on
04/22/2009 3:00:15 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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