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Subject: Re: THOMASONs of SC 1700-1800
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:16:11 EST

In a message dated 2/28/2001 5:35:44 AM Central Standard Time,
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> Subj: THOMASONs of SC 1700-1800
> Date: 2/28/2001 5:35:44 AM Central Standard Time
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> All,
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> The following quotes are presented in order to focus a search in SC for
> these
> THOMASONs
>
> History of Arkansas, 1887, p. 252,
> "HUGH FRENCH THOMASON **** is of Huguenot extraction.

IT MIGHT WELL BE ADDED TO YOUR TRADITION IN HIST. OF ARKANSAS GIVEN ON
THOMASON-L (2/28/01), STATING THAT OUR ANCESTOR, WILLIAM THOMASON A
HUGUENOT, CAME INTO SOUTH CAROLINA - THAT THE TRADITION AMONG THE
BRIDGEPORT, AL GUNTERS WAS THAT THEIR ANCESTOR, LAVINIA ARLINE THOMASSON
(THOMASON) DAUGHTER OF SD. WILLIAM THOMASON, WAS "OF FRENCH DESCENT." THAT'S
AN INDEPENDENT TRADITION OF NORTH ALABAMA.

IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA IF YOU'D FORWARD THE WHOLE OF YOUR POSTING ON
THOMASON-L TO THE OTHER RESEARCHERS LISTED ABOVE IN MY "SEND TO:" BOX.
THANKS, HUGH.

ACROSS THE YEARS, THAT "OF FRENCH DESCENT" (NATIONALITY?) HAS PRESENTED US
THE PROBLEM OF REFERENCE: TO WHICH STRAIN (MULLINS? THOMASON?) COULD THIS
FRENCH DESCENT REFER? OR, FOR THAT MATTER, WAS IT INTENDED TO REFER TO
"FRENCH" AS SURNAME OR NATIONALITY? BOTH WERE POSSIBLE AS "FRENCH" AS A
SURNAME IS ALSO AMONG THESE INTERRELATED LINES IN WARREN CO., TN.

FOR A DECADE? LONGER? IT WAS THOUGHT IT REFERRED TO HUGUENOT MULLINS (WHO
EXIST), BUT THAT IT COULD REFER TO THE THOMASON LINE HAS NOT BEEN RESEARCHED,
PER SE. TRADITION ALSO HAD IT THAT WILLIAM THOMASON MARRIED ONE SARAH
MULLINS. IT IS SURELY POSSIBLE THAT IT REFERS TO THE THOMASON LINE,
ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT OUR MULLINS LINE APPARENTLY WERE PA >
HALIFAX CO., VA > RUTHERFORD CO., NC (AT THE SC BORDER OF SPARTANBURG CO.) >
TN, WITH NARRY A SIGN OF HUGUENOT ORIGIN.

IN AS MUCH AS OUR MULLINS LINE FOCUS BECAME SHIFTED TO THE NC/SC BORDER AREA
(RUTHERFORD, NC/SPARTANBURG, SC) - AND - OUR FRENCH (SURNAME) LINE OUT OF NJ
ALSO WOUND UP WITH FOCUS IN THE IDENTICAL AREA, IT APPEARS THAT WOULD BE THE
LOCALE OF CHOICE FOR STUDY OF THOMASONS AS WELL.

IN LOOKING THROUGH SOME OF THE COUNCIL JOURNALS OF SC THIS MORNING, PREPARE
YOURSELF FOR THE INFLUX FLOOD AMONG "IRISH" PROTESTANTS BEARING THE SURNAME
THOMASON (ET AL). I PUT THE NATIONALITY IN QUOTES AS MANY'S THE FRENCH OR
GERMAN HUGUENOT FAMILY, DODGING PERSECUTION, THAT FLED THROUGH IRELAND &
ENGLAND, LATER BECOMING COLONIALS. THOMASON, IN MANY VARIANTS, APPEARS AS A
SURNAME IN ALMOST ALL OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES & DOESN'T DECLARE AN
ORIGINAL NATIONALITY WITH EASE. "HUGUENOT," HOWEVER DOES AVER A FRENCH
PROTESTANT OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES.
KAY G.

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