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Re: pronouncation of the name
Posted by: Rex Mathers	Date: July 14, 2001 at 06:53:19
In Reply to: pronouncation of the name by Kathy Mathers	of 414

According to my grandfather, our ancestor changed the name from Mathews or Matthews to Mathers not long before coming to the new world in the 1840's. The short "a" was simply carried over to the slightly different name.

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