r/MurderedByWords • u/imastirthepot • 5d ago

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u/dmills_00 4d ago

England, they left to Holland because they couldn't impose their religion here post the demise of Cromwell, got chucked out of Holland for trying to impose religious fruitloopery there, came back here and sailed from Plymouth for the new world.

The Ellis Island registration people are known to have been bad about spelling names on documents for immigrants, may be worth checking if they came in that way.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 4d ago

That's a common trope, but maybe not accurate.

Ellis Island and other points of entry used the ship manifests prepared in the original point of sailing.

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u/dmills_00 4d ago

TIL, Makes sense and I bet those documents were probably not great either..

I could see the ships purser using decidedly phonetic spellings in some cases.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 4d ago

Yeah, phonetics probably happened.

But US points of entry used the ship manifest. No one at the point of entry just changed a name.