Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Sedonia - Schnebly
Date: Dec 16, 2004 @ 00:55
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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From: "Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:29 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Sedonia - Schnebly
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> We had cast an eye on Mrs. Sedonia Schnebly, and I had claimed she came from
> Switzerland - just because all those -ly are Swiss family names. There is a
> town in the Swiss Canton of Wallis called Sitten - sion in French. The
> Romans founded it as "Sedunum". Sedonia therefore has not just "sounded so
> nice" in the ears of Sedonia Schnebly's mother, but she may have meant to
> leave a memory of Sitten with her daughter's name: Sedonia means "the one
> from Sitten."
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> Which means the Schneblys came from Sitten.
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> (All speculation, but a bit more than nothing...)
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> Wolfgang
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