User:Cthrnvl/Surnames

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• Jo's Auvil Archive at Rootsweb
• Auvil Genealogy Facebook Group
• Auvil Surname Home Base at Ancestry.com
• ancestry.com board Auvil
• ancestry.com board Auville
• Genforum Forum Auvil

Mastin

• The Mastins
• Genforum - Mastin

Abel

• Worldfamilies - Abel/Able
• Ancestry - Abel

Cornstalk

• Ancestry.com Cornstalk

Lester - may be entwined with Blankenships, Mastins, Christians, Riffe Mary's father was John V and his father William Calvin. They were descended from Gabriel Arthur and his Cherokee wife Nikitie "Hannah." I descend from William's sister Martha who married Abner Lester. - Jo Spencer

To do: make some kind of list of the variations of family surnames

• Andreas/Andrew Ablin Abelin Abel Aubel Auble Able Ably Auvil Auville Ebly Koplin (A written like a K in German script) Oble Oval Possibly Apple, Apel
• Hochwaerter Hohwerder Hochwerter Huberter Howarter Hoberter Howarter Oberter Howerter Hochwerder Hovarter Hochwarter Hoverter Hovater Hobarter Hovatter
• Moats Motz
• Cronise Croneiss Kroneiss
• Köller Koller Kollar Kullers (tombstones) Keller Killer Holler Haller Color Coller Culler Cullers (with s esp in the south USA) Sometimes confused with Kohler
• Skaggs Scaggs Skaggins
• Kinnison Kennison Kinneson Keniston
• Google Books: Elinipsico 373 entries Ellinipsico 322 also Ellinipisco 1
• Mastin Masten Martin Mustain Masdin Other surnames sharing the M235 Soundex code:
• MACDANIEL | MACDONALD | MACDONNELL | MASTENBROOK | MASTIN | MAXTON | MCADAM | MCADAMS | MCDANAL | MCDANIEL | MCDONALD | MCDONEL | MCDONELL | MCDONNELL | MCDONOUGH | MOGDAN | MOGDEN | MUSTAIN |
• Adkins Atkins
• DIEDERICH, TIEDRICH, TEDRICK, or TIDRICK

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• Shawnee Shawanoes Shany Shanesse

Jacob Lesher's wife Mary Coffman was a daughter of George Kaufmann and Magdalena Hochwaerter. Both were from Frederick, Frederick Co., Md and came to Randolph (now Barbour) in about 1803-1805. Thereafter George's name appears as Coffman. In 1810 his family is listed in the Randolph Co., VA census under his son Jacob Coffman's name. Hoater was frequent from 1810 to about 1830 when that family and his childrens' families came to be known as Hovatter. Other siblings of Christopher also came to the area now known as Cove Dist., Barbour Co., but that is a complex story involving the "Auvil/Auville/Auvel/ Ovel/Abel" family, the Cox family, the Wilson family and probably the Haller (pronounced usually Holler) family. More later if you wish to explore this line which goes back to Howarter or similar variants in Germany & Switzer- land. Said family appears to have survived only in the U.S. and Austria and/or Hungary. Hoverter, Hovater and Howerter are other variants in the U.S. This Kaufmann line remains in some mystery but was definitely in Frederick , Md. area for about a generation before George came to Randolph Co. -Nicholas Sturm Nick_Sturm@msn.com