Your Name in the Federal Republic of America

It is almost the 1870s in the FRA-verse and historical figures are swiftly being butterflied away, aside from a few already mentioned persons who aren't the same as their OTL counterpart. I'm already having trouble thinking of names for new alt-historical figures. After reading the past few updates of Glen's DSA I saw that the idea of a "your name in this TL" thread was a great idea that would keep me from needing to think of new names.

As with Glen's thread the characters who show up in the timeline will not be your or your ancestors; they may possibly be alternate timeline relatives. So it would be useful if you could give some ethnic information about the name you contribute.


P.S. Glen thanks for the fantastic idea.
 
My mothers family, Foulke: Welsh, lived in Pennsylvania since 1699

My fathers family, Hurst: Scotch-English, Immigrated to New Zealand in 1890's, then immigrated to US in 1950's.
 
Burrell - Northern English heritage. We believe some Burrell's may've gone to America way back and become slave-owners, not sure but possibly.
 
My family ancestors include the Gates (indirectly related to General Horatio) who lived in Connecticut from the 1650s til the 1850s. Included in real life were one George Washington Gates and a Marquis De Lafayette Gates (poor fellow :p), along with girls named Temperance, Constance, Felicity, and other virtures. So you could go wild with the first names and it would be within character.
 
I'm lazy so I'll just copy and paste what I posted in the similar thread by IchBinDieKaiser. I should also note that my family (after arriving from Spain sometime in the 17th or 18th centuries to Mexico) settled in Mexico's Bajío region (Jalisco, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí), though I do have family from Tamaulipas and Texas, as well as the Valley of México so you can use any of the names for future Mexican characters you have in mind.

My full name is Juan Pablo Rivera Gutierrez (gotta love Spanish and its obsession with long names :p). Use it however you please.

If you just want my family's surnames, you have:

Rivera (Spanish/Italian) Pretty common ASAIK

Gutierrez (Spanish) Again another common one

Quintana (Spanish) This one I like because I share it with a Mexican founding father.

Reynaga (Spanish/Basque)

Castellanos (Spanish)
 
My Mothers' family is fifth generation convict I think they were Irish, any way the name is Payne, pronounced pain, would probably already be in oz by now.

My Fathers' family came from Scotland to the North Island of NZ not too long a go 1880-90s I think, the name is Patience.

I am not making this up.
 

Glen

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It is almost the 1870s in the FRA-verse and historical figures are swiftly being butterflied away, aside from a few already mentioned persons who aren't the same as their OTL counterpart. I'm already having trouble thinking of names for new alt-historical figures. After reading the past few updates of Glen's DSA I saw that the idea of a "your name in this TL" thread was a great idea that would keep me from needing to think of new names.

As with Glen's thread the characters who show up in the timeline will not be your or your ancestors; they may possibly be alternate timeline relatives. So it would be useful if you could give some ethnic information about the name you contribute.


P.S. Glen thanks for the fantastic idea.

You are welcome - yes, the donated names have become quite useful after so long of divergence. And it's nicer to give a cameo than just to throw in random names.

So, some contributions to the cause -

Finney, common first names of James, John, and Robert. Pre-ARW arrival probably through Pennsylvania, in western PA by early 1800s, thence to Ohio shortly thereafter. Mostly farmers.

Kays, arrived in the mid 1700s in Pennsylvania, but settled in New Jersey, then the family relocated to Ohio by the early 1800s.

Roberts, Welsh (around Denbigh, Wales), arrived in the US sometime mid 1800s, original came from money, supposedly a manor house somewhere, disinherited when he married against family's will.

Davies (changed to Davis), Welsh, mid 1800s arrival in the US, somehow ended up in Ohio - married a Morgan above his station, and they ran away to America together.

More later.
 
My family's surnames:

Salcedo (Spanish/Basque) - arrived in the mid 1800s from the Basque Country.

Herrera (Spanish/Sephardic Jewish/French) - unknown

Garcia (Spanish/Portuguese) - unknown

Zambrano (Spanish/Italian) - unknown
 

Fyrwulf

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My last name is Larsen, which is Danish in origin. My particular branch of the family originally hailed from Schleswig-Holstein and from what I gather my ancestors were decently well-off merchants. One interesting quirk is that some female cousin of the Royal Family (probably not all that close to the line of succession) married into the family and so I'm related distantly to the Royal Family themselves. I haven't the faintest clue when one of my ancestors emigrated to the US, but I would suspect it would be sometime between the ACW and WWI, since my grandfather somehow managed to fool the recruiters during WWII and signed up at the age of 16.
 
y maternal Grandfather's Family Name is Thoman (pronounced Toman). They have been in America since the early 1800s. They were missionaries who travelled across America in the late 1800s (1850s-1890s) spreading the word of God. They eventually settled down back in Illinois.

By other families (father's mother's father's father's and mother's mother's) didn't arrive in America until the early 20th Century.
 
My mother's last name is McLauren and my Father's is Heiens. If you want to use that. Oh, and I'm related to the Pinckneys!
 
My mothers side of the family is related to Andrew Jackson (Already had a big roll in this timeline) and James Longstreet. My fathers side is Eastern European something. Mostly German and Russian.
So if we are going to throw someone from my family in, lets use my fathers family name from pre 1900. Tiegen.
 
My father's name is Mumby. Its originally Viking. We originate from northern Lincolnshire. My mum's name is Harrison. Mostly farmers from Nottinghamshire. A lot of them were called George.
 
My name, Tomas, is relatively common, but apparently the reason I am Tomas and not Thomas is because half my family is Scottish and Tomas is supposedly the Scottish Gaelic spelling of it or some such theory. My surname is Lowe. I don't know the etymology.
 
Don't know much of my biological dad's side, step's is Gaume, French with traditionally very large families. (His mom was of 13 children born in 1900-1915 range, not sure whent hey came to U.S..

Maternal Grandfather's side was Meyer and there's 3-5 different spellings which makes it confusion, but they're Catholic from, I think, Baden and settled in West Virginia area in 1840s.

Maternal Grandmother's, the ones I was able to get most on, from Ireland (Bradys, came from Ireland to Midwest in 1870s), France (Mallard/Maillard, came to same part of the Midwest in 1840s), and Blanchards (same part of Midwest in 1850s from Switzerland/France border.)

The last two are the ones I mentioned in a challenge which led tot he TL "Sweet Lands of Liberty," where I mentioned I have very probable Huguenot and possible Waldensian ancestors, in case you're inteerested in creating some character background.
 
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