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Marg Rich's avatar

Love this! I grew up in Tennessee with so many of these surnames and of course some in my extended family. Also, two characters in the work of William Faulkner wear the surnames of Bundren and DeSpain. Some have said we’re not allowed to write history in Southern Appalachia, so some of us write “fiction” that tells the truth.

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Seathrun Veliki's avatar

I'm always surprised and amazed when you start listing names and I start finding in my family tree, in this case Barton. Which as far as I can from doing the ancestry family tree thing (which yeah I know is spotty and speculative on its own) came from Black Irish Bartons, who married French dubards when they came over to to Ireland before coming here.

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