Re: Herman Greathouse Lazear>Brooke Co., WV
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Re: Herman Greathouse Lazear>Brooke Co., WV
Loren Lazear 3/17/02
Loren,
I have a posting on this list that might be helpful. It is number 74. Gene's reply to my post is very good, also.
Usually, the spelling of the name depended on where your ancestor settled at the time when most people were learning how to read and write. For example, my Jonathan Laizure came from PA to Ohio about 1818. In the 1820s his children began to sign the name "Laizure". They lived in Harrison County. A decade later another family came to Harrison County from Maryland--they didn't spell the name "Laizure" when they lived in Maryland, but they did after a decade or two in Harrison Co. (It had been spelled Lashare on the MD father's military records from 1812.) They adopted the way it was spelled in the area where they lived.
In the past the Lazear spelling was mostly in West VA and on the western edge of MD and PA and the very eastern edge of Ohio. A branch of my family settled on the far western corner of PA in the 1700s and kept the Lazear spelling.
(Lazear and Lazeare had been used on tax records for the family going back to the 1720s in MD.)
Leisure is most common if the family moved to Indiana in the 1800s.
Leasure began to be used in Westmoreland and Indiana County, PA before 1800 and spread all around PA, MD, and parts of Ohio, as the people moved.
Lazier was used frequently for Canadians. However, there was a clerk in Allegany County, MD who really liked that spelling, too.I have seen Lazier used in a variety of locations.
It appears that unrelatedpeople may have adapted the same spelling simply because it was the custom in the locality where they lived. However, some of the people were probably distant cousins without knowing it.
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