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From: "Gary Rea" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] Rea
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:06:33 -0500
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Mary, having researched the subject for nearly twenty years, I can tell you
that the possibility of the surname Rea being derived from Dunrea in any way
is virtually nil. The name is of Scottish origin and is a sept (allied
family or surname) of the Clan MacRae. More likely, Gatewood's middle name,
Dunn, was derived from an ancestor's surname, Dunn. It was quite common for
middle names to be taken from a mother's maiden name, forinstance. If his
mother's maiden name wasn't Dunn, then it could come from an earlier
ancestor. But, as surnames go, in twenty years, I've never encountered any
Dunreas.


Gary Rea
Project Administrator
Rea Surname DNA Project



----- Original Message -----
From: "mary eubanks" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: [RHEA] Rea


> Has anyone on this list been checking to see if our Rea surname was
> originally Dunrea. I just remembered that one of the Rea men in Illinois
> (1800's) was called Gatewood Dunn Rea. Could that be because that was an
> earlier spelling?
>
>
> Mary Rea Eubanks
>
>
> Family names of Rea, Eubanks, Malone, Weston, Wiggins, Kelley, Haggard,
> Lipe.
>
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