Thursday, February 13, 2025

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Friday, March 08, 2019

Another Meaning For 'Cornick'

"Cornick" is the Filipinoname for the snack that people in the USA call "corn nuts"...

Friday, December 14, 2018

Quernyc

Searches on familysearch.org and ancestry.com reveal that one of the
oldest versions of the Curnick name listed in the record books
actually comes from France.

According to those records, it was in the town named Trefumel, located
in the northwest corner of France, where Guillaume Quernyc and Jehanne
Charval became the parents of Fleurie, Beatrix, Pierres and Jehanne
Quernyc, all born between 1543 and 1553.

The records that are available do not show the Quernyc name continuing
on to the next generation.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Some Aydelott Links....

This link from the Italian Ancestry site gives the only explanation I've found on the web, so far, of the origin of the Aydelott name...

Where the Aydelotts came from...

Some geneologies...



And some biographies...
Rev. Joseph Aydelott...

George K. Aydelott...

And architect Alfred Aydelott...

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Kurnik - Kornik

Kornik is a town in Western Poland, a few miles from Poznan. It's
famous for its castle, its arboretum, and its library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornik

While the word 'kurnik' means 'chicken coop' or 'hovel' in Polish, the
word 'kornik' translated from Polish means 'borer' or 'bark beetle' or
'woodworm' or 'sawyer'...

https://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/kornik

There's been an assumption that the Curnick and Cornick families in
England are the same family, with one group or other misspelling their
surname early on. However, if the Polish origin of the names is
correct, the different meaning of the two Polish words could suggest
two different family origins.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Aunt Georgia's Assumptions - Part 1

Looking up 'Elizabeth of France' on Google shows up 2 possibilities...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_France_(1602-1644)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_of_France_(1764-1794)

No Aydelottes show up overtly in either of these articles. Maybe a
deeper look into these Elizabeths' lives will scare up a few.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Another Meaning for "Kurnik"

From https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=kurnik

Austrian (Styria) and Slovenian: topographic name for someone who
lived by a piece of ground that had been cleared by fire, from kuriti
`to make a fire', formed with the agent noun suffix -nik.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press