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Author: TMcGinnis260
Surnames: Smith, Clark, Kitchen, Prough
Classification: queries
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I have never seen any member of this family or a record that lists Proof as the surname. I
can not state, at the moment, with certainty which county but the earliest land deeds
issued to the family in Pennsylvania list BRACH as the surname spelling. I have seen
several times where BR and PR are used interchangably in early germanic family records.
This suggests to me that the family pronounced the name as Prow and it was possibly
understood as Brow. Several members of my family married Prough and Kitchen descendants. A
Prough site for this family is maintained at
Myfamily.com
Thomas McGinnis, tmcginnis(a)onemain.com
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