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Re: A "POSSIBLE" origin of the Bethea name.
Posted by: Debbie Lodge (ID *****1017)	Date: June 09, 2002 at 20:34:55
In Reply to: A "POSSIBLE" origin of the Bethea name. by Michael Bath	of 791

The spelling "Bethea" is uniquely American and we know that the name has various other spellings in earlier documents such as : "Bathey" "Bathie", etc. These names did exist in Great Britain and "Bathie" still exists to this day in Scotland (where it seems to have originated), England, Canada, Australia and the US. The name may have been Norman in origin , possibly derived from the French surname "de la Bathie". There is also a town of this name in the French Alps. There is no hint of a Basque or Spanish ancestry but that's an interesting theory.

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