RE: Relations?

["Ramsey-Styer, Darwin" <RamseyD@dot.state.sc.us>]

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Good luck to Helen St. Clair on your search.  Something to remember is
that names mutate so check all possibilities.  (This is a pain in some
instances because, as a group, we seem to only use about five first
names [I exaggerate but it is a limited selection]).

For example, our family (VA, AL, TX, and now even further west) has
always been Saint Clair or St. Clair.  That is one of the family names
and SINCLAIR is the greater clan name in many instances.  I have found
that Sinkler is a variation in the spelling because of the way St. Clair
sounds when pronounced properly.  So, as far as research, you may run
into various spellings when searching old documents because in many
instances the recorders didn't ask how to spell the name or, if
illiterate, the people themselves may not have had any idea.
Cross-referencing works best in many of these situations.  Again, good
luck. It's great fun to read old documents and piece together history
and migration patterns of the family.  DTR 

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	From:	stclairj@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:stclairj@ix.netcom.com]
	Sent:	Saturday, May 30, 1998 6:12 PM
	To:	sinclair@zilker.net
	Subject:	Re: Relations?

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	Specifically to Helen St. Clair,
		It is interesting that your husband is a St. Clair out
of New Hampshire.  You should check 
	Morrison's genealogy (see Sinclair genealogy site bibliography)
for a connection with any of the 
	St. Clairs he has traced.  My grandfather is listed there and so
I was able to trace my descent 
	back up to John Sinkler of Exeter, NH.

		At some point, my ancestors changed the spelling of the
name to St. Clair.  It has been a 
	long time since I have seen Morrison, so I can't recall when the
change occurred.  In any case, 
	my branch of St. Clairs moved to Maine in the seventeenth
century.  If you check the on-line 
	genealogies on the Sinclair site, you may find the answer, as
well.  There are many Jameses, 
	Johns and Thomases both as Sinclairs and St. Clairs coming out
of NH.  My great, great 
	grandfather was James Madison St. Clair, born in 1803, if I
remember correctly.  My great 
	grandfather was named, curiously, Thomas Jefferson St. Clair.
He lived in Rockland, 
	Maine, however, where my grandfather and father were born.  He
was commonly known as Jeff St. 
	Clair.  I don't know where he was born, but all of my family
that I know of were from Rockland 
	and nearby towns (Union, Thomaston, Camden).

		I suppose it is possible that your James St. Clair b.
1790 may be a cousin of my great, 
	great grandfather.  One would need to consult either Morrison or
other of the good sources 
	available on the Sinclair genealogy site to be certain.

		Best wishes, John St. Clair

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