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Re: Saxon family

SAXON, SAXSSON, SAXSON, ESSAXON, ISSACSON, ANDERSON, JOHNSON, AHLSTROM

Posted By: glenn gustafson (email)
Date: 9/4/2012 at 06:46:53

In Response To: Re: Saxon family (Nancy Haas)

I emailed you a small descendant list. The Swedish spellings came from the Swedish church books. Isak is the spelling of the given namn or Isac in older records. Carl Isaksson is a 'jump the pond' spelling and outside of a ship manifest, probably was never used. Double 'ss' is a construct not utilized by US census recorders as they wrote the single 's'. Patronymics would have Johannes Isaksson's son Carl have an efternamn of Johannesson but children arriving in a family setting were usually recorded using the surname system. Saxon probably was the result of a 'best effort' of the American recorder to understand Swedish sounds. Isak sounds like 'eesac'. 'c' followed by 's' probably blends the sound to a non-discerning ear and could have been understood as an 'x' type sound.

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