Last names you rarely hear

[MollyGalaga]

on trumpet

I heard of him thats family

Haven’t met anyone yet with that last name that wasn’t related to me.

 

[get these nets]

I've heard & noticed that fact (happened in my family)

Need to figure out the story.

If you're AA , and you have roots in Philly, Baltimore, Charleston SC, or Norfolk VA, that last name is likely to have come from the St. Domingue refugees who fled to those American cities during and after the Revolution.

If your people are from the Gulf region, it's either from the French who held plantations there or from the SD refugees who flooded the area in the early 1800s.

 

[MollyGalaga]

If you're AA , and you have roots in Philly, Baltimore, Charleston SC, or Norfolk VA, that last name is likely to have come from the St. Domingue refugees who fled to those American cities during and after the Revolution.

If your people are from the Gulf region, it's either from the French who held plantations there or from the SD refugees who flooded the area in the early 1800s.

Yeah, thats the two links im studying now.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Never met a Chávez who wasn't Mexican

Some of the earliest black american families surnames were Chavez. They anglicanized them to Chavis.
So if you see alot of Chavises, they were originally Chavez but it was of Portuguese origin not Spanish.

reminds me of



he was referred to as a "black" non-latin, mlb manager but I thought he was latino because of his surname (never hear any aframs with that last name before) but Manuel appears to be an old stock FPC surname along with Chavez (chavers or chavis)

 

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Manuel appears to be an old stock FPC surname along with Chavez

Yep. I know some Manuels. They connect to Benjamin Banneker. Our families intersect back in Ohio.





If you see the names 'Lett' and 'Manuel', they are Banneker descendants. We have Letts in our family from Ohio. @IllmaticDelta

 

[murksiderock]

Blacksher (my last name). Never met anyone with my last name who wasn't related to me. Ever. And I'm almost 32...

 

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@IllmaticDelta Do you know what happened in NC in 1835? I know in 1817 Virginia instituted the black codes that stated all free people of color that continued to reside in the state risked enslavement. That's when you saw a mass exodus of Virginia's free black families into the free territories like Ohio where branches of my family relocated. It appears some of them also went into Robeson County but whatever happened in 1835, instead of leaving, it appeared to cause them to have to 'pass' as Lumbee.

 

[JadeB]

Blacksher (my last name). Never met anyone with my last name who wasn't related to me. Ever. And I'm almost 32...

I looked it up and Blacksher refers to a noble family from Devon, England which a region in Southwestern England.

Plenty of British nobility went to North America to get involved with the slave trade business so....

 

[murksiderock]

I looked it up and Blacksher refers to a noble family from Devon, England which a region in Southwestern England.

Plenty of British nobility went to North America yo get involved with the slave trade business so....

Oh for sure, its a slave name easy! I looked it up years ago and I guess as far as American soil goes, its "native" to Alabama but I dont have any family in Alabama whatsoever so we're generations removed...

There is a number of Blackshers in the Little Rock area, which is where my dad is from, but my dad isn't my biological. Even in Little Rock, as far as my travels have gone, there's 100x more Blackshers there than anywhere else I've been but its not like it's equivalent to "Johnson" or "Williams", its just that there's more in Little Rock than maybe anywhere else...

And my dad's dad was from Chicago, and Chicago's a huge city so apparently there are at least a handful of Blackshers out there...

But I'm telling you, I've lived on both coasts and in seven states and traveled pretty extensively, while I know other Blackshers exist, I've never met any that weren't from Arkansas and somehow related to my stepdad...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

@IllmaticDelta Do you know what happened in NC in 1835?

...the only big event that I can think of that happened in NC in 1835 was:

1835 Revision of the North Carolina State Constitution disenfranchises free blacks.

LibGuides: Quakers, Slavery, and the Underground Railroad: Timeline

Following the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion of 1831, the state legislature passed amendments to its original 1776 constitution, abolishing suffrage for free people of color. This was one of a series of laws passed by North Carolina whites from 1826 to the 1850s which the historian John Hope Franklin characterized as the "Free Negro Code," creating restrictions on that class. Free people of color were stripped of various political and civil rights which they had enjoyed for almost two generations. They could no longer vote or serve on juries, bear arms without a license from the state, or serve in the state militia.[16] As these were obligations traditionally associated with citizenship, they were made second-class citizens.

In 1853, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's restrictions to prevent free people of color from bearing arms without a license. Noel Locklear, identified as a free man of color in State v. Locklear, was convicted for the illegal possession of firearms.[17][18][19] In 1857, William Chavers from Robeson County was arrested and charged as a free person of color for carrying a shotgun without a license. Chavers, like Locklear, was convicted. Chavers promptly appealed, arguing that the law restricted only "free Negroes," not "persons of color from Indian blood." The appeals court reversed the lower court, finding that "free persons of color may be, then, for all we can see, persons colored by Indian blood".[20]

I know in 1817 Virginia instituted the black codes that stated all free people of color that continued to reside in the state risked enslavement. That's when you saw a mass exodus of Virginia's free black families into the free territories like Ohio where branches of my family relocated. It appears some of them also went into Robeson County but whatever happened in 1835, instead of leaving, it appeared to cause them to have to 'pass' as Lumbee.

Yea, the ones that migrated north to Ohio like you pointed out, didn't take on an Indian identity (they stayed black) even if the claimed to be part Amerindian; the ones who stayed in NC did because it offered them an easy way out of the Southern Jim Crow system

Hamilton McMillan (August 29, 1837 - February 27, 1916)

single handily invented this "tribe" of Indians so they would vote for him/democrats

Spoiler

 

[Po pimp]

Blacksher (my last name). Never met anyone with my last name who wasn't related to me. Ever. And I'm almost 32...

I know someone with a similar last name, but spelled Blackshear

 

[murksiderock]

I know someone with a similar last name, but spelled Blackshear

Yeah and its easy to see they are derived of the same origin. And my dad's dad died in Arkansas in either '00 or '01, but allegedly (according to family) he still has some family in your city, probably less than 10 or 20 Blackshers in the whole city of Chicago but supposedly there's still a few lol...

I've met a couple Blackshears in two or three different states, and I remember that Blackshear cat from Chi that played for Louisville a few years back. Blackshear seems to be more prevalent and spread than Blacksher. I've yet to meet anyone named "Blacksher" although of course, the internet exists abd I know there's some out there lol. There isn't alot of us, though...

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Only Iverson I know is

Think his name is Nordic.

A misspelling of "Ivarsson" - Son of Ivar or like Ubba and Bjorn Ragnarsson....sons of Ragnar Lothbrok.

We gon learn A.I. is a gotdamn Viking.

 

[get these nets]

Think his name is Nordic.

A misspelling of "Ivarsson" - Son of Ivar or like Ubba and Bjorn Ragnarsson....sons of Ragnar Lothbrok.

We gon learn A.I. is a gotdamn Viking.

We sitting here talking about Asgard? Not Valhalla,but Asgard.
Not Mjolnir, but Asgard.

 

[Doobie Doo]

Barrino yet.

What are some really rare surnames that you don't hear at all or too often?

I do Fantasia is KCI & JoJo cousins