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Hi,
They didn't change their name nor was it
a speech impediment. It was an English
accent(Yorkshire mostly). Think of the
way you hear many people with a 'hillbilly'
accent say idea, alot of times you'll hear
ah-dee-er. General I remember my mountain cousins ending most words that end in vowels with an -er. Examples are piller(pillow), mater(tomato), tater(potato) (& yes I loved to make fun of
their accent when I was little, sorry!).
Alot of the English do the same(with the anniversery of Diana's death, now is a good chance to listen to how the English say
Diana - I bet you'll hear Dianer a few
times.) In my grandfather the accent was
still so pronounced that my mother always
assumed that my grandfather's parents
must have been right off the boat. My mom
says people even assumed she was from England
when she was a kid & before she had lived in
Chicago awhile. I guess telephones, tvs,
and national school curicula has gotten rid
of most of this.
It was very common in those days to spell
phonetically(as I just did to spell that
word) because the general population wasn't
educated(in the reading/writing sense of the
word). My Great Grandfather John Clay had
his name spelled both Farler & Farley. And
you can visit some old KY mountain
Family cemetaries with both spellings.
This is probably way way more than you ever
wanted to know, but imagining & verifying
these kinds of things is what makes genealogy
cool to me.
Regards,
Andy
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