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There probably is a Georgetown SOMEWHERE in Great Britain, but regardless, I would think that it's obvious that GEORGEtown is likely named for King George (as in THE MADNESS OF).

My own family comes from stock from Scotland. My first forebear on this continent came here from Scotland in the late 1600s in chains, as a slave, following one of the failed Jacobite rebellions. He came from Fifeshire and his son named his home in Georgetown (a tiny little town they founded) Rock of Dumbarton. That "tiny" cottage was used for a minor establishing discussions for a little institution called the United Nations.

I'm terribly sorry about that.

My family did go on to scout and map much of the rest of the Eastern US, including a little area named "Beall's Folly" which was sold to a low rent traveler named Daniel Boone, which later became known as Boonetown, but that's another story...

I grew up in the town of Scarsdale (village and town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. It is a northern residential suburb of New York City. The site was settled in 1701, following its purchase by Caleb Heathcote, who received a royal edict from William III for the Manor of Scarsdale, so named for Heathcote's home district in Derbyshire, England. During the American Revolution, British…) and have through my lifetime been more and more aware of the connections to "the mother country." I desperately want to go back an visit the areas where my family came from. Of course, that might leave some "bitter feelins..."

Seriously, the research I've done to date indicates that my ancestors were part of "the border" culture called The Reivers. This was basically a bunch of folks, north and south of the border, whose livelyhood was built on raiding in the opposite direction, stealing horses, cattle and women (hopefully keeping them straight)... in essence I'm the descendent of a bunch of horse thieves.

And damned proud of it! ;^>