Re: Looking for William Sommerville or Summerville
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Looking for William Sommerville or Summerville
Patti 9/09/01
Patty,
Sorry I don't have any info relating directly to your line but a couple of things that might help you.
The placename is Wigtonshire and is in the south west of Scotland.There are other sommerville spellings too, which might be worth following up as I know that the somerville line I'm chasing changes spelling on quite few occasions over the years.
Try Sommerville, Somerville, Sommervile, Somervile, Somervel & Somervil for starters.I've found that the LDS site manages to cater for most spelling changes, but the "Soundex" system doesn't quite manage to cope with some of the more imaginative spellings.
The chances are, that if your line comes from South West Scotland, that they link into the Somervilles stemming from the Carnwath area of Lanarkshire which is a few miles south east of Glasgow.
Good hunting.
Jim
Troon
Scotland