Re: who can help me for my english name?

John of Aix wrote:

Joseph Littleshoes wrote:

[snip] Interesting stuff but I'm more interested in your surname (if it is) 'littleshoes' I've never heard of it before. Great name if it is your surname. Any idea where it comes from or dates from?



Its a long story, and goes back to Native american assimilation, and the choosing of a legal name.

Briefly stated, in the late 1800's an ancestor was so impressed with her child's first 'store bought shoes' in a time and place where babies were not routinely provided with shoes, that she would often refer to her baby's darling 'little shoes' and eventually to the child itself as such, the name stuck and when it was necessary for that child to choose a legal surname he saw it as a term of endearment to be perpetuated legally.

Fortunately he was long gone before the days of the internet and the rather unimaginative interpretations that can be put on it in regards male virility.

There is a town in Oregon called Noti, the name is, allegedly, based on an respected local Native american elders refusal to wear a neck tie, "Noti".
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