Looking for family info worldwide - all spelling variants
Hi
I am assembling information on everyone who has the Fentiman name, wherever and whenever they existed, and however they are spelled - see below. All contributions welcome - I may be able to tell you how you fit in!
The name seems likely to have arisen at most twice, possibly just once. Resolving that is one of my main aims.
The earliest records come from Swillington in West Yorkshire - in the Poll Tax of 1379. The name is also found in Bedfordshire where it is well established in Wilstead (Wilshamstead) by 1546. From these two centres it spread slowly across northern and southern England, and eventually rather sparsely across the world.
Alternative spellings found in records KNOWN to refer to family members from either of these two groups include:
BENTAMAN, BENTEMAN, BENTIMAN, BENTMAN, BENTTEMAN, BENTYMAN (B- spellings mainly in Hertfordshire), FANTAMAN, FANTERMAN, FENTAMAN, FENTAMEN, FENTEMAN (most common in Yorkshire), FENTERMAN, FENTIMAN (most common worldwide), FENTIMANN,
FENTIMEN (a recent divergence), FENTMAN, FENTONMAN or ffENTONMAN (the earliest form), FENTTIMAN (another slightly less recent divergence), FENTYMAN, VENTAMAN, VENTAMIN, VENTEMAN, VENTERMAN, VENTIEMAN, VENTTIMAN, VENTIMAN, VENTIMEN, VENTIMON, VENTMAN, VENTOMINE, VENTYMAN, VINTEMAN, VINTERMAN, VINTIMAN and VINTYMAN (V-spellings mainly in Bedfordshire, and now surviving apparently only in Australia).
Any instances of these, or other credible variants, would interest me greatly.
Regards
Roger Fentiman, Cambridge, UK
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Dave King 5/25/06
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George LaChance 2/23/05
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Roger Fentiman 4/17/05
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dannii T 5/16/02
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Roger Fentiman 5/17/02
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Ross OEHMS 4/06/10
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