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Button Gwinnett? or ll?

Button Gwinnett? or ll?

Jeffery Gwinnell (View posts)
Posted: 20 Sep 2002 3:40PM GMT
Classification: Lookup
Edited: 19 May 2011 9:24PM GMT
Surnames: Gwinnett, Gwinnell
Hello, i was wondering if the man who signed the decloration of independance was related to the gwinnells. His signature looks like it has two l's at the end but a line running through them which makes it a t. Anything would be great!

Re: Button Gwinnett? or ll?

iduffGwiinutt (View posts)
Posted: 3 Oct 2002 2:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 May 2011 9:26PM GMT
Surnames: Gwinn, Gwinnett, Gwinnutt, Gwinnett, Gwinnell
Yeah and I would be guessing that your surname was either spelt as ending in the following...."Nedd/Nudd/Nett/Nutt",but was misspelt over the course of years,,,its a welsh name ans as such points to coming from North Wales kingdon of Gwynnedd!!!..

Re: Button Gwinnett? or ll?

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 7:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gwinnett, Gywnnedd
The name Gwinnett derives from 'Gwynnedd" and originated in the Carnarvon, which was formerly part of the principality (or kingdom) of Gwynedd, in North Wales. The final "dd" in Welsh can be pronounced as English "th" and the name exists also in the form Kenneth and Gwinnett. Over time the spelling varied to Gwinnett, Gwinnutt and even Winnett, the neutral, final vowel being variously rendered as 'e' or 'u'. The name first appeared in Gloucestershire in the latter part of the 16thC., in the person of George Gwynnedd of Shurdington (d. 1604), who fled from Wales due to religious persecution of Protestants under Queen Mary. I have Gwinnett ancestry.
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