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Yes, I'm following up my own message. But there is method to my madness.
Found my lineage to be from the infamous Charles Angell of Frederick County Maryland. He was a direct connection. But after suffering through the single/double L controversy I learned or rather relearned a lesson from my personal life. Watch what people write!!!! The census takers and administrators love to spell as they see fit and it can stick. My first name is Jesse. It is, however, often entered by well meaning typists as Jessie and has appeared as Jess also. This can be problematic as they become legal aliases when they "hit the books". I'm sure that the clerks recording information often typed it as Angel without so much as a second thought. So I now search with A-N-G-E-L so that search engines will pick up all (or is that al) versions. So c'mon all Angels and Angells let us unite and shake this genealogy tree till all the apples have fallen.
Now, off to solve the German/English controversy. So I offer this question. If Charles Engell was Deutsch by descent, or even emmigrated as such, why, in an area where German was the norm would he change his name to the English Angell, offer his children predominantly English names and communicate in English?? Remember too that we were very close to having German as the national language and many of the early records are in German. Myself, I think he was a bit of a black sheep - and where better to hide from your english relatives than in a very German area?
So there, excoriate me as you will. Just offer me the father of Charles Angell either way.
Thanks be to the tree shakers.
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