Hello everyone,
I've researched a great deal of my family history, and feel quite experienced, but my new research from the last couple of days is puzzling me a little! I wondered if anyone could chip in with any help with the above surname.
We've long suspected Huguenot roots in our East End lines - and I've recently found a line using familysearch which pretty much confirms that! These people tended to be weavers, from the Threadneedle St/Stepney/Bethnal Green area, and surnames such as LEDOUX/BECARD/POSTEE are popping up. These sound very French in origin, but the one that is puzzling me in particular is MICLOS. It seems to be spelt variously as MICLO, MICLOS, MICKLOE, MICLOX, MEEKLOE as the years pass, I'm sure through Anglicising and mis-transcribing. I can't find anything on the origin of it though - does anyone know if it is perhaps a variation of a French name, and what area it might come from? Or something a little further flung?
I've got a Pierre Miclos born 1694 Spitalfields, an Abraham Miclo born 1722 around Threadneedle St as well as lots of others. The most intriguing is (I think) my 9x great grandfather Antipas Miclos - what a great name! I had never heard of an Antipas before, but I believe it's a biblical name? He must have been born in the mid-late 1600s, I'm unsure where though - his name is from the birth record of his son Pierre.
Any thoughts on the surnames (particularly Miclo) or on Antipas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you and apologies for the waffle!
Catherine
I've researched a great deal of my family history, and feel quite experienced, but my new research from the last couple of days is puzzling me a little! I wondered if anyone could chip in with any help with the above surname.
We've long suspected Huguenot roots in our East End lines - and I've recently found a line using familysearch which pretty much confirms that! These people tended to be weavers, from the Threadneedle St/Stepney/Bethnal Green area, and surnames such as LEDOUX/BECARD/POSTEE are popping up. These sound very French in origin, but the one that is puzzling me in particular is MICLOS. It seems to be spelt variously as MICLO, MICLOS, MICKLOE, MICLOX, MEEKLOE as the years pass, I'm sure through Anglicising and mis-transcribing. I can't find anything on the origin of it though - does anyone know if it is perhaps a variation of a French name, and what area it might come from? Or something a little further flung?
I've got a Pierre Miclos born 1694 Spitalfields, an Abraham Miclo born 1722 around Threadneedle St as well as lots of others. The most intriguing is (I think) my 9x great grandfather Antipas Miclos - what a great name! I had never heard of an Antipas before, but I believe it's a biblical name? He must have been born in the mid-late 1600s, I'm unsure where though - his name is from the birth record of his son Pierre.
Any thoughts on the surnames (particularly Miclo) or on Antipas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you and apologies for the waffle!
Catherine
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