Posted By:	Janet Linthicum
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	Subject:	Re: Where the name Linthicum orginated ?
	Post Date:	May 06, 2000 at 20:28:00
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/linthicum/messages/100.html
	Forum:	Linthicum Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/linthicum/

Hello Brian. I stumbled on this site looking for something else. As I understand it a Welshman by the name of Thomas Lincecombe if memory serves came to America in the 1600s and changed the spelling to "Americanize" it. This is from a geneology book my family has going all the way back to him. So, as far as I know, we are all descended from him and his two sons (he also had two daughters), and the name is "Americanized Welsh". Hope that helps. Also, I live in California and folks out here have a terrible time pronouncing the name, perhaps it's the same in Texas. If you don't know this, there is a Linthicum Heights in Maryland, and if you visit the east coast, the name just falls out of folk's mouths like water - quite a change ;->! Best, your 49th cousin however many times removed..... Janet