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>Terry;
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>As you know my last name is English - and means someone from the White Forest. This is the original spelling of the name. I have a long list of alternative spellings.
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>My grandfathers grandparents were from Galway on the male side. The name was Cummins and when they moved to England in the 1840's it became Cummings.
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>Tom

Sherrr and weren't you yanks aaall from the owld country somewhere along de loine, te be sherrr, beghorrah! :-)

Yer "grandfathers grandparents" are yer sayin? Sherr and weren't dey still huntin' de Goiant Elk back den?!

Oi'm taakin' me grandfather, so oi am!