That is correct. I am related (not by blood) to The Kneeland's of Boston, and we have a street there named after our family. Very big in the mining and brick businesses. My grand dad invented the first colling system for deep mines (or so I was told).
They changed their name because of blood ties to the Stewart Clan.
Far more interesting is my mother's side of the family and my biological father's ancestry.
Too much to go into, but as a highlight my great grandfather was the governor of Mauritius. My mother was born on Réunion, where she was raised on a plantation (owner-not slave), until they fled from the black-fever and relocated first in Madagascar, and then in South Africa.
In her teens Mom became very active in the anti-apartheid movement in south Africa, but left before they started jailing people for that.
My biological father's last name is Mortensen, and he was related to Cornelius Cruys
~FK
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@> wrote:
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> > I to have found gambling skills to come in handy during the course of normal life. I'd write more, but I have a gamble on a date tonight with a scientist from Louisiana that protects endangered species.
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> > If I can convince her I think rationally, perhaps she try to protect me.
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> > Cheers...
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> Hey, Frank. I just puched "Kneeland" into the World Names Profiler. It's strange that most of the Kneeland's in the world live in the US. Usually, the heaviest concentration of the name would be in the European country of origin. I suspect that Kneeland is not the original spelling. And I also suspect that your Kneeland ancestors ere from Northern Ireland.
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