Is Huskey Hesketh ?
I find this forum very intriqung.I wonder if Hesketh is the correct name, and Huskey is a variant ? I've been searching for years for a Huskey/Husketh immigrant and another researcher linked me here. The earliest HUSKEY known in America is Anne, importee with John Anderson, to Norfolk, Va.,via Wm.Powell and Robert Spring,1711. The first known probate is John and Thomas Huskey, Surry Co.,Va.,1738-40. We have been looking at Maryland records lately, as a John Hesketh is mentioned in Talbot County, Island Hundred Twsp., 1733, not far from Norfolk and Surry.The Huskeys eventually went on to Brunswick,Va.,Wake, Rowan,and Granville Co.'s,N.C.,and to S.C. and Tenn..The name could easily have been varied from Hesketh to Huskey, considering dialects and the old 'thorn'; "Y"= "Th",e.g.,"Y" was actually pronounced "Th", as "Ye" was pronounced "The". Some writers could have reversed the "Th" to "Y". I have seen my Huskeys written as "Huskey" and "Husketh" within the same documents. Can anyone help ? Is any researcher familiar with the above ancestors and does anyone have a Huskey/Hesketh connection ? Many Thanks, Al
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Re: Is Huskey a Hesketh Variant?
Stephen Hesketh 10/05/02
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allan huskey 10/05/02
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