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I read last night as I surfed the websites for my family tree info that there were over 53 different spellings and pronouncations of the name Osborn. I wished I had run that note off last night.
I had colon cancer and was operated on at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor. I had a Doctor Osborne taking care of me. He was a young man and I told him. We, Osborns who dropped the "e" were rich and those who kept the "e" were the poor side of the family. PHew, did he stomp out of the room and I apologized the next day and he just laughed. He promised me he was not mad at me.
We have spelled the name our way for quite a few years and I have gotten back to 1645 and only the English connection spelled it with an "e" and my family came into Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio and settled there. I think my family dropped it when they were forced to take the oath in Pennsylvania and then moved ahead of the Civil War. Just theory now. Of course the English proper way is Osbourne. They have to put u's and e's on almost every word. Or maybe we drop the O and e's off their words to simplify the words.
Earl Osborn
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