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I joined the Cawthorne Family Site several years back and at that time thought my research
would soon lead to England and that spelling of my family name of Cothern. Now my book of
Cothern Clan is up to 1,000 pages with the indexes and I have the following spelling of
the names of our line:
Cothern (731 people), Cauthon (703), Cawthon (424), Cauthron (115), Cothran (87), Cothren
(56), Cawthorn (44), Casthron (29) and Cothen, Cotheran, Cothon (2 each) and Cathon,
Cathron, Caughthorn, Cauthan, Cauthorne, Cawthren, Cothorn, Cothram (1 each). So obviously
Cawthorne IS NOT a good choice name for the site that I am in. It would be wonderful if
all people with the various spellings of the name could be in ONE site so that information
could be shared more readily. Any thought? Jean Rodwick