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IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD DIRECT ME TO ANY INFO ABOUT MY FIRST NAME. ARTER CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING OUT ABOUT IT, EXCEPT IT IS RECORDED AS IO HAVE SPELLED IN THE STATE RECORDS OF BIRTHS. I WAS RAISED IN A HOME FOR CHILDREN WITH NO KNOWN PARENTS, ALONG WITH 240 OTHER CHILDREN. THANK YOU; BUDDY 704-544-1966
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This thread is 18 years old, but I'm going to give it a shot.
Arter/Buddy, if you do happen upon this, I am a cousin of yours. I'm doing genealogy and there you are. Because I can't find any records of your mother, I googled your name, and found you here.
I saw someone asked you about being a junior. I am also wondering about that, as I have records of Arter Elton Wood, Sr.
I'm not comfortable with leaving my contact info here, but you can contact me at an old email address of mine: mamasnarky@gmail.com.
Jessica
Arter/Buddy, if you do happen upon this, I am a cousin of yours. I'm doing genealogy and there you are. Because I can't find any records of your mother, I googled your name, and found you here.
I saw someone asked you about being a junior. I am also wondering about that, as I have records of Arter Elton Wood, Sr.
I'm not comfortable with leaving my contact info here, but you can contact me at an old email address of mine: mamasnarky@gmail.com.
Jessica
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It is a shortened version of Arthur. There are common changes like this in Old English. Frequently the letter "H" becomes silent. Try looking in books with Old English Names. Kathy
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I'm wondering, Arter, where did the Jr. come from in your name? Or was it your father who was born in the home for children with no known parents?
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At first glance, I would guess that your name is some kind of variation of "Arthur". Perhaps a recording clerk had misheard the name "Arthur" and that was how you'd wound up being named "Arter"?
Alternately, you may have been given the surname of "Arter" as your first name. Two English surnames which contain the element of "Arter" are "Arterberry" and "Arterburn".
"Arterberry" is a variant of "Atterberry", and means: "One who came from Attenborough (the fort of Eada's people; or of Edda), in Nottinghamshire; or from Adderbury (Eadburg's fortified place), in Oxfordshire."
"Arterburn" means: "One who came from Otterburn (otter stream), the name of places in Northumberland and the West Riding of Yorkshire."
-- Nanaea
Alternately, you may have been given the surname of "Arter" as your first name. Two English surnames which contain the element of "Arter" are "Arterberry" and "Arterburn".
"Arterberry" is a variant of "Atterberry", and means: "One who came from Attenborough (the fort of Eada's people; or of Edda), in Nottinghamshire; or from Adderbury (Eadburg's fortified place), in Oxfordshire."
"Arterburn" means: "One who came from Otterburn (otter stream), the name of places in Northumberland and the West Riding of Yorkshire."
-- Nanaea
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