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Thanks to you and every one else for your support. I will confess your comment about my forgetting more about names that the rest of you know made me laugh. :) That's what I get for being 68 now and having been interested in and actively researching given names for 60 years.

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It doesn't mean I can NEVER be wrong -- I would hope that if someone has evidence they've found that corrects a mistaken impression I have about any name they'd politely point it out. With the internet there is a lot more data out there to look at the history of names than was available just a few years ago and I am constantly learning new things myself. For example, a few years ago when writing a column on the name Leanne I was very surprised to see from census records that it's been around since the early 1800s as a variation of Leanna, which goes back to the 1600s itself.

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There is always more to learn, and I'm sure that includes things about American colonial names and "abstract quality" names.

This message was edited 9/10/2019, 12:00 PM