Subject: Re: Sedonia - Schnebly
Date: Dec 16, 2004 @ 01:13
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> We had cast an eye on Mrs. Sedonia Schnebly, and I had claimed shecame 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 notjust "sounded so
> nice" in the ears of Sedonia Schnebly's mother, but she may havemeant to
> leave a memory of Sitten with her daughter's name: Sedoniameans "the one
> from Sitten."
>
> Which means the Schneblys came from Sitten.
>
> (All speculation, but a bit more than nothing...)
>
> Wolfgang