Steve,
I have run across the same situation in Kentucky and the
only answer I have found so far is that it depended upon the
clerk or census taker writing the name down. Sinckler is a
phonetic spelling as it is often pronounced that way in
Kentucky and other places. My family always prounounced it
St. Clair but most local people still say Sinkler or
Sinckler regardless of the way the family spells it. I
often have heard that Catholics are St. Clairs and Sinclairs
are protestants - but this does not hold true for my family.
Sheila Pendergrast
smpender@g-net.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Cooper <scooper75@mindspring.com>
To: <sinclair@mids.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:43 PM
Subject: St. Clair/Sinclair
> Hi: I have just joined this list and have a question.
Not long ago, I
> found out that my great-great grandmother was Nancy Susan
Sinclair of Wayne
> Co., Tennessee. I was unable to find her as a child,
until I found her
> listed as the daughter of William St. Clair of Lauderdale
County, Alabama in
> 1850. Everything checks out for this to be her. My
question is: Why did
> the St. Clair family change to Sinclair???? !!!!!
from Saints to
> Sinners!!!!
> Thanks, Steve Cooper, scooper75@mindspring.com
>
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