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Title: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: hurworth on Friday 22 June 18 22:08 BST (UK)
Have just come across a DNA match with a Scottish ancestor with this surname.
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Friday 22 June 18 23:12 BST (UK)
Hi Hurworth,

I don't think this is a scottish name or if it is it's a bit skew-whiff?

A quick search on SP for all years incorporated in their indexes turns up...

227 in 4 categories which includes BMDs, Census' & Valuation Rolls (some of those who may/likely have been listed in the different categories) i.e. doesn't point to a scottish name with that particular spelling.

Can you be more specific as to where/when in terms of yrs/areas & any other info. which may help to sort out what the name may have been as names differ a lot with pronunciation with accents/areas/counties/countries etc?

One which may be worth considering is Ainsley/Ainslie although not in abundance either?


Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: ladybird on Friday 22 June 18 23:14 BST (UK)
I would take a guess and say On..gel..lee with a soft G. Sounds French to me  ???
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Saturday 23 June 18 00:23 BST (UK)
Hurworth,

Ladybirds thoughts are worth considering!

Do you have French connections in your DNA?

Scottish census records may reveal such but really you will need dates/places etc. I think?

Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 23 June 18 01:24 BST (UK)
The Scottish ancestor may not be Scottish - and may just live in Scotland?
Your match with the Scottish ancestor might be through his/her mother?
There are no matches for that surname with that spelling on the "surname profiler".
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: hurworth on Saturday 23 June 18 01:44 BST (UK)
The match's tree has an ancestor in Aberdeenshire with this surname in the mid 18th century, but I don't know how they came by this information. 

Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Saturday 23 June 18 01:50 BST (UK)
Do you have a forename or at least male/female?

Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Saturday 23 June 18 01:56 BST (UK)
This is one of the earliest I found but nowhere near Aberdeen although I will check others;

A marriage i.e. Donald is under both Catanach & Angely & marrying an Angely!

CATANACH or ANGELY DONALD ANGELY ISABELLA
27/11/1780
Edinburgh, St Mary's Cathedral, Midlothian

Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: hurworth on Saturday 23 June 18 02:00 BST (UK)
Thanks rosinish. 

I can see on ScotlandsPeople that there are records for what could be similar surnames, but it depends on how the surname is pronounced.
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Saturday 23 June 18 02:10 BST (UK)
Closest I'm finding for the Aberdeen area is the surname Angus.

Angely seem to be Borders of Scotland areas.

Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Rosinish on Saturday 23 June 18 02:18 BST (UK)
Hurworth,

If you search Sp with ang**** using the 'wild cards allowed' option there's a few variations to consider although you will need to add in the dates you're searching or leave it wide open for all?

Annie
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: barryd on Saturday 23 June 18 04:57 BST (UK)
Only two Angely names on Free BMD (England and Wales). Alexander died Longtown, Cumberland area, March Qtr. 1843.


Robert married Plymouth, Devon area, Sept. Qtr. 1845.
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Forfarian on Saturday 23 June 18 11:39 BST (UK)
No mention of Angely or similar in G F Black The Surnames of Scotland
Title: Re: How is the surname Angely pronounced please?
Post by: Angely on Friday 19 July 19 15:42 BST (UK)
Hi being a Scottish Angely it is pronounced (ANGEL - AY)
Although the proper French is (An-gel-ee)
If you have a Scottish DNA trace it will be us.