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ArchivesRe: Looking for ethnic origin of name-group: Alafare, Reden, Lot, Shadrack, Alford, Etheldred
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
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I doubt if Alafare is related to those names because it seems to always be female, and those names seems to always be male.
I did just find a discussion on a genealogy site noting that there is now a lot of DNA evidence (as well as historical evidence from banishment records in Scotland and England) that Romanichal (British gypsies) were definitely present in colonial America, especially in Virginia and Maryland, so that makes the idea that Alafair might originally be a Roma name a bit more plausible:
http://dnacommunities.com/cgi-bin/forums/gforum.cgi?post=1697;guest=2973662
I did just find a discussion on a genealogy site noting that there is now a lot of DNA evidence (as well as historical evidence from banishment records in Scotland and England) that Romanichal (British gypsies) were definitely present in colonial America, especially in Virginia and Maryland, so that makes the idea that Alafair might originally be a Roma name a bit more plausible:
http://dnacommunities.com/cgi-bin/forums/gforum.cgi?post=1697;guest=2973662
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Alafare reminds me of Aleferna who is recorded as Prioress of the Hohenholte monastery in Northern Germany in 1237–1240. The name is only partially explained ALA means "all", but the FERNA part is obscure. (see: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleferna )
von Reden is also a german surname belonging to a nobility family stemming from a place called Reden near Hannover (northern germany, again)
von Reden is also a german surname belonging to a nobility family stemming from a place called Reden near Hannover (northern germany, again)
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