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In doing some family history research, I found that my great-x6 grandparents were named Shon and Shan (ha). Which I'm assuming are Anglicizations of Siôn and Siân? Have the spellings Shon and Shan ever really been used? I wonder if it's more likely their names were actually spelled in Welsh?
The source I found this in was an online quotation from a newspaper in the late 1800s, talking about the history of the area in the early 1800s. So I'm not entirely sure how accurate the text is. They would've been born in the mid-late 1700s.
The source I found this in was an online quotation from a newspaper in the late 1800s, talking about the history of the area in the early 1800s. So I'm not entirely sure how accurate the text is. They would've been born in the mid-late 1700s.
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