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Dear Sirs,
My name is Amanda Dake, nee Hayashi, and I am the wife of Paul William Dake. Paul and I met while he was in the service in Europe.
For many years now I ask the family where did the Dakes come from. According to information from Grandmother and Grandfather this branch of the Dakes originated in Alabama before Grandfather moved to Wisconsin many years ago.
Grandpa's name was Garner Newt Dake, and he was from the Aniston Area in Alabama. He used to say his mother was part indian and his grandmother was a squaw.
Garner married Dorothy Stubbe and they had 3 boys. Anthony Dake, Timothy Dake and James Dake.
Timothy married Chrystal Warner and they had 3 children, Paul William, my husband, Reba Louise, and Wayne Leland.
My husband kept insisting that the Dakes from Alabama were of French descent. Since differences in pronounciation would make the name sound much different, I kept thinking this was not a French name.
I finally found a reference to two brothers, Master Scribes who wrote King Renee's Book of Love during the French Middle Renaissance. These brothers were from the Alsace-Lorraine and since that Principality kept being sometimes French sometimes German it is quite possibe that the Deike brothers' descendants corrupted their Germanic name in to a French pronunciantion.
A French person would pronounce the name Deike as Dake in English. It is possible that the name is French.
I would much appreciate any information on the Dakes since Grandpa recently passed away. It is my understanding that he had living brothers and sisters.
Thank you for any information.
Amanda Dake.
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