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@y17g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, says...

On Mar 31, 5:51*am, "Eisboch" wrote:


You are correct, Prick *or whoever you are.


LOL!

sorry, sometimes it's hard to make no comment in a non-boating
thread...

In some respects I can understand your reaction, but that does not make
your reaction the correct one.
From reading your posts here you seem to be a gentleman, so I will take
this opportunity to give you a brief background of my name.
I hope it will make you think twice before mocking somebody's name, and
if not, at least I tried.
I see you are a Schnautz, so suspect you may be sensitive in this area.
In the long history of my family, all traceable in British genealogy and
heraldry annals, lack of male descendants and marriage of the female
descendant to another manor or principality led to a number of changes
of the family name.
This is a common occurrence in the long sweep of history.
From Shaftcroft to Dickinson to Cockburn, then DePenis, LaBanane, and
finally vonPrick - who was a Prussian Baron - when an arranged marriage
took place joining him to the last of the Labanane line, Princess
Donhava LaBanane.
Today these names strike the modern person as similar in a certain way,
but language itself is ever evolving, and simple chance plays its role.
I don't mean to sound any way "superior" here with all this talk of
heraldic names, because I'm certainly not.
The family fortune waned long ago, and my work has mainly been clerking
in various Sears Roebuck shoe departments, and a stint at Tom McCann.
In my direct family line the vonPrick name was shortened to Prick by my
great-great-grandfather when he left Stropfordshire in 1849 to seek his
fortune in the California gold rush.
He had no success there, and likewise failed in other endeavors, and so
too the family left in Europe suffered a steep decline.
Some of the European family still use the vonPrick name on formal
occasions, but here in the U.S. it is mostly relegated to discussion of
ancestry at various family functions.
Birthdays, weddings, christenings, picnics, etc.
I use the Prick family name here really to disguise my identity, as it
is not easily traced, and I am a rather private person.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to use my given name, as it is also not
easily traced.
In 1933 my grandfather had a violent falling out with the European
Pricks, and decided to abandon the name.
He changed his name legally to Jones, and that is the name I was given.
I'm happy with it, and consider myself lucky in that respect.
My grandmother insisted that the family name become her maiden name if
my grandfather were to abandon his family name.
He adamantly refused and insisted on the Jones name, which was done.
This deep disagreement simmered for another 4 years and led to divorce,
which was relatively unusual in the 1930's.
Her maiden name was Schmuck, and I sometimes ponder how my life may have
been different if Jones had not won out in the battle between Prick and
Schmuck.
But family matters are boring to strangers, aren't they? So I'll stop
now.