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I have seen the name spelled like this on early Irish settlers to the United States. This includes one of mine, who was born in 1626. It's male, not a version of Danielle. I can't find any records of people holding this name after 1700.
Does anyone know anything about it, or is this just another case of a misspelled name?
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Does anyone know anything about it, or is this just another case of a misspelled name?
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"....A simple I love you means more than money...."- Frank Sinatra
This message was edited 6/17/2008, 10:45 PM
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When you are talking about records before 1700 in English, I don't think "misspelling" is the proper term. Spelling simply was not "set" back then. People would spell their own name in different ways in the same document, and no one thought anything of it. The spelling of regular words didn't begin to become regularized until the King James Bible, which was about the time your ancestor was being born. So Daniell before 1700 would simply be an alternative spelling of Daniel.
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