Oneeye
04-26-2014, 06:00 PM
In our peculiar case, the surname changed over to a German spelling in a German speaking community in Lutheran church records in America, at which we have been at a dead end until recently. But there has been a breakthrough for us.
My cousin's results have linked us to the family that we were considered to be a possible alternate spelling of, due to their presence in colonial America. Well, now we have the pieces, and they link us to ultimately having our surname handed down from this fine 17th century Sir:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/HughHamersley.jpg
The funny part, many years ago, a great uncle of mine received a strange phone call by a lady telling him that he was descended from this man, but didn't take her seriously because the family story has been that we were Dutch. (We are in fact, married into Dutch families through this line... some clear back in New Amsterdam, as well as German.)
My cousin's results have linked us to the family that we were considered to be a possible alternate spelling of, due to their presence in colonial America. Well, now we have the pieces, and they link us to ultimately having our surname handed down from this fine 17th century Sir:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/HughHamersley.jpg
The funny part, many years ago, a great uncle of mine received a strange phone call by a lady telling him that he was descended from this man, but didn't take her seriously because the family story has been that we were Dutch. (We are in fact, married into Dutch families through this line... some clear back in New Amsterdam, as well as German.)