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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Cecil and everyone,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Was it common to change your name in yesteryear
(1850 - 1930)? Did people carry some kind of identification? Was it
easy to change your name?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm familiar with the criminal element. My
husband's grandfather Charles Howard (b. KY 1885) was convicted mostly of
forgery. He used the names Edward Barrett, Charles Howard, Charles Edward
Howard, James Harris, Robert Howard and Robert Williams.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone else have stories or reasons why people
changed their names?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ronda</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=cchouk@cox.net href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">Cecil Houk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:06
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>.... My maternal grandfather, Cecil Clark
Rulaford's father was born Edgar McMullin (or some variation of that
spelling). He became George A. Rulaford, and married my gr grandmother,
Martha Jane Ford in 1880....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good hunting,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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