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Surnames: Channell
Classification: Query
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I apologize, I wrote incorrectly that Robert Fitzjohn was born November 24, 1748 when
actually it was Abraham Fitzjohn Channell, Sr. In the genealogy I have, they list his
father as Robert Fitzjohn, but there is no other info on him. My father always told the
story that two brothers crossed the Atlantic with the name of Fitzjohn and when they got
to the other side they argued so one changed his name to Channell. I also heard the story
that one son married a woman that the family didn't like and he was disinherited. So
he took his wife's maiden name of Channell and left the England. Don't know if any
of this is true. Somehow the name changed from Fitzjohn to Channell.
Jill