Re: conections to sweden
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In reply to:
conections to sweden
8/15/01
Just from a general knowledge of history it is highly likely that everyone with the name Lax, Laxson, Laxton, Lacks, et cetera who currently live anywhere in the UK, US, Belgium, Holland, and so on could be descendended from a common Nordic family.This is assumed (rather liberally) from the common migration of Nordic peoples to eastern Britain and Gaul during the middle ages along with the name's earliest traces in English history to roughly the same time and its concentration along the northeastern coast of Britain and the Shetland Isles.
Its odd that I just read your post, because my brother and I were discussing this just 2 hours ago.
-Thomas