Re: surname CASE in genealogical discussions


And what about ffoulkes?

FreeBMD has umpteen entries for the name spelt with a double-f, all
of them with the initial
letter capped.

My feeling is that families who still use two little ffs to spell their name
came to education late in life, and perhaps did minor digging back into
records and found the single capital letter written with a doubled lower
case letter, tilted one into the other..
I have never met any Wilson or Waters or Woodward who spells his
name vuilson, vuaters, vuoodward (etc though this is the way a 'double U'
was written once.
I gather Sir John French thought the spelling was common and
persuaded his family to adopt am ffrench spelling/.

somewhat pretentious!

Make that very pretentious.

EVE

Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians
Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society
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