Re: Nationality of the surname Ankney?
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Nationality of the surname Ankney?
Stan Hunt II 8/23/02
Those with the surname Ankeny/Ankeney/Ankney descend from Dewalt Anconey (1728-1781). The surname itself is French Huegenot (Angeny), those of whom fled to Germany during the Huegenot persecution period of the late 1500's. Dewalt sailed from Germany to Philadelphia in Oct. 1746 on the ship Neptune and recorded his surname as Agne. It seems those two sons of Dewalt's first marriage adopted either the Ankeny or Ankney spelling while two of the four sons of his second marriage adopted the Ankeney spelling.