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Yes - Samuel, son of Charles of Md. changed his name back to Musgrave. Some of Job's kids did as well. Some of the family became Methodist - most of them used Musgrove - the ones that held to the Quaker ways used Musgrave - for the most part. If you check both Benjamin and Samuel's histories that used BOTH names at points in Maryland - in once instance the family name conveniently changed to hide the fact some of the brothers sided with the Crown during the revolution. So back about 9 generations we are the same family. We didn't come here "straight" from England - the Musgroves had holdings in Barbadoes and actually owned the Leeward Islands at one point. Timber and shipping was the family trade back in the old country and they were kin to the Lear family - lower nobility. The Sheriff of Nottingham was a Musgrave and his line can be traced back to the Falais rolls and the original name was Musgros. At that point the family lived in what is now Bavaria. If you google Steve Musgrove's "Musgrave Manor" website (England) there is also good info - Many of the family became "Reivers" and that was a result of getting kicked out of Europe as non-Catholics - hence our "Scotch-Irish" blood tho the line that came to the Americas had returned to England first and lived in Northumberland. - There is where your "Oswain" and "Cuthbert" names come from.
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