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Jelfs Family in Badsey, Worcestershire

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Re: Jelfs Family in Badsey, Worcestershire

Posted: 11 Feb 2013 2:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
When you say the site has misspelt it - do you mean ancestry.com? There are two separate family names "Jelf" and "Jelfs" which almost certainly were originally the same name but which, over centuries, became separate names as did other variations such as Jelfe, Jelfes, Jelff, Jelph etc.

Although the Jelf/Jelfs name appears in Worcestershire, it is also concentrated in Gloucestershire and Somerset which were closer to trade routes owing to the Bristol Channel. That all said, it seems reasonably likely that it is an Anglo-Saxon name originally.
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Maureen Spinks 28 Nov 2000 10:37AM GMT 
mjelfs155 20 May 2008 7:51AM GMT 
nyliving 11 Feb 2013 9:39PM GMT 
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