I sympathise with your effort ,but you will not convince your friend unless
you hold a gun to thier head.
You have done your best in providing a result,by helping a friend.let them
pay to have it proven if they dont accept your findings.
I had this in my own family and my wifes ,they not accepting what is, or not
understing genealogical research.
So i made them cough up to prove i was right ,they didnt apologise to me
after discovering i was correct in my findings,they just moaned about the
cost.best wishes JOHN in crisp and even Deal Kent
On 2/25/09, 10John <10John(a)ewalters.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Could the List help me on a matter of Patronymics.
I am helping a friend with his family tree. We have traced it back to a
Thomas Samuel whose birth on 4th July, 1799 is recorded on the Register of
Llanedi, Newhouse Independent Chapel (in Welsh known as "Ty newydd")
The Register shows the parents as being Samuel Gibbs and Sarah. Their other
children, Ann Samuel and Griffith Samuel, are also shown on the same
register.
I am confident from surrounding information that we have the right person,
but my friend will not accept this. He says that as his surname is Samuel it
is not possible for him to be descended down the male line from someone
called "Gibbs". I say that this is what Patronymics is all about. Can the
List confirm that I am correct and explain how patronymics were still
operational at the start of C19th in industrial south -east Carmarthenshire.
(The Register for Newhouse has other examples)
If I am wrong will the List say so, and I will then have to grovel.
John
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