Naming The Branches

Are we related? We might just be.

Below is a list of the family names associated with the various branches of my ancestral tree, in no particular order.
Do you see something familiar?

The Book of Names

Paternal Branches

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Chaney Owings Hutchins Downey Spotswood Federline Hall Becket Wood Harmon Duvall Myers Ward Sullivan Griffith Bradford Warfield Mallonee Sewell Marriot Cole/Coale/Coal Bowen Riggs Randall Dorsey Carrol Price Parsons Stone Garrett Warden Davis Howard Burroughs Todd Hall Buxton Lock Douglas Tilney Tudor Beaufort Plantagenet Woodville Valois Wittelsvach Anjou Crutchley Browne Davidge Clarke Carter Bale Beale At some point, families don't necessarily go by family names, but by the city/town/county/province in which they were born and lived.

Maternal Branches

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Barrows/Barroughs/Burroughs Weaver Hauser Bayne/Bane/Bain Cole/Coal/Coale Rezjek Hoerner Ludwig Ross Bowen Lee Oursler Smithson Day Ensor Peterson Harvey Smith Lewis Rodolphus Powell Gardner Ruxton Henchman Harvey Norman White Sparrow Galloway Mott Deards Colles Hargraves Archdeacon Miller Bandell/Bandle Boss Belville/Belveal Hettinger Cannon VanBebber Tempe Young Carpenter Bucklin Brown Dennison Howland Woodward Strong Bennet Bryant Batt/Bath Reade Allen Dotten Deye Peke Barryford Wisner/Weesener Storms Mannon Athington Norman Fuller Webb Elliott Luder Sheers Gott Landon James Tate Decker Schot/Schutt Jacobs Wilding McKenzie Munro MacLeod Dingwall MacCay MacEth MacNeill DiBaltrodi At some point, there are no more family names, as people are known by the regions in which they lived, or as the children of their fathers.

You may notice a few names that repeat between my paternal and maternal branches, like the Bowens and Coales.