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Author: buckshot33football
Surnames: Roark, Chambliss, Chambless, Chamnis, Champness
Classification: queries
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What's up? You are certainly right abt. etomoogy. One must consider the education
level throughout history. Even census takers weren't challenged when spelling a Sept
incorrectly...thus..in my Nancy Chambliss (1782, SC), the name became Chambless. Family
reunions have been attended by people in the same line, yet spelling their names
differently.
My name is Doug Roark. I have found sixteen different variations of the Irish name,
O'Rourke which was est. using the original name Ruairc. Even Heremon was part of this
Irish name borrowed from the Norse then considered Gaelic then Irish.
Blame the English for forcing Irish, Welsh, and Scots to make their names
"English" or Anglo-Saxon. Henry Cromwell and others forced the dropping of
'O , Mc, and Mac from Irish and Scottish names.
I was able to find the family of Nancy Chambliss only months ago. I had connected her
w/the wrong family even though they were related. Karen Chambliss helped point out the
parents of Nancy Chambliss. VA or NC had long been stated as Nancy's birthplace.
However, she was born in Darlington Co., SC (1782), near the Pee Dee River. She and
several siblings and other kin moved west to northern Alabama, (Marshall and Madison
Co.s), probably just before 1800. Nancy met my 3 X g. grandfather, John Roark (1773, NC),
and married him.
So, I will continue to consider education, pronunciation, and other applications when
seeking branches of my family.
Geography also plays an important role. As a retired social studies teacher/athletic
coach, I have found that my knowledge of these subjects has been invaluable.
Goodbye for now!
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