Re: Research ideas

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>Dear Q Friends,

>...

>I've often wondered about the Robert Quarterman who just "shows up" in South
>Carolina in 1694. Could he have been perhaps a refugee from the Huguenot
>persecutions in France at that time? Could he perhaps have taken that name
>as an assumed name to avoid detection in case of further persecution? If so,
>we're barking up the wrong tree. My Swedish ancestors on my mother's side
>changed names from Johnson(?) to Forsvall on the Trans-Atlantic trip just
>because they thought the name was too 'common'.

I was over in Normandy a couple of weeks ago.  It seems there's a good
library in Evreux; I'm checking to see if I can get somebody on the ground
to do some research there.

...

>Sincerely,
>Clay Quarterman
>Odessa, Ukraine
>clay@paco.net
>
>> So, how are things, from Oxfordshire to Australia?
>> It's partly cloudy here in Texas; rained last night.
>>
>
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