Re: mulch NOW Names

In a message dated 5/12/2004 9:58:02 PM Central Standard Time, 
tchessie@comcast.net writes:
Where does your name come from?
For many generations in my father's family the first daughter was given the 
name of both her paternal and maternal grandmothers.  I have pictures of 
several of the Zemulys in my family, the oldest being of my great great great 
grandmother, Zemuly Coates McClesky.  It was sometimes spelled "Zemily."  I don't 
know its origin, but I have proof going back to the eighteenth century.  
Unfortunately, girls didn't count for much in family wills or other records before 
that time.  There is even a community, named for an ancestor, in Mississippi 
with that name.  If my parents had truly followed the custom my name would have 
been Zemuly Isabel.

zem

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