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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Saturday 30 July 05 22:54 BST (UK)  »
dear Peter,
  Cousin Maxine says no more of her books are available, but if you send me your snail-mail address, I'll try to copy the parts that may be of interest and send them.
    Mary Lee

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 23:11 BST (UK)  »
(Sorry!)  I never investigated further at the time, but I am very intrigued, and am most anxious to hear more.  Personally, I wouldn't mind being Irish at all.
             Mary Lee McNames Allen
              Rangely, Colorado, USA

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 23:08 BST (UK)  »
Some time ago, while playing on the computer, I found some McNameses in Co. Roscommon in the 1840's.  I was amazed, especially when I looked at a map and found that was not northern Ireland.  To be honest, my father's family was very anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 23:06 BST (UK)  »
When I was a child, I was told the McNameses were Scottish.  Once cousin Maxine began serious research, it became obvious that if they were, there was hardly a drop of Scottish blood left in us, because generation after generation of McNames men married Dutch women.  They lived among the upstate NY Dutch and Palatine Germans and French Huguenots.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 22:56 BST (UK)  »
When I was a child, I was told the McNameses were Scottish.  Once cousin Maxine began serious research, it became obvious that if they were, there was hardly a drop of Scottish blood left in us, because generation after generation of McNames men married Dutch women.  They lived among the upstate NY Dutch and Palatine Germans and French Huguenots.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Abram's father was Isaac Names, who was born in 1711, but we don't know where.  He was an indentured servant, so was probably born overseas.  He was baptized in the NY Lutheran Church in 1731, age 20, and his father was said to be John, but we have never found any more about John than that.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 22:46 BST (UK)  »
He served in the Revolutionary War on our side, though he did move to Canada for a time after the war.  We suspect that he added the "Mc" because he was living among many Scotsmen.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 22:43 BST (UK)  »
I keep losing what I've written and having to start over, so I'll send this in pieces.  My gr-gr grandfather was born Abram Names in 1752 in New York state, but after 1800 he was called McNames.

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Roscommon / Re: Surname of" NAMES"
« on: Sunday 08 May 05 22:40 BST (UK)  »
Dear Peter,
  My maiden name was McNames.  My second cousin once removed wrote an excellent book called "McNames Names McNamish", which covers all she could learn about the family in America.

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