Anyone Every Hear of the Male First Name : "Fountain"?

[LPurch6636]

I am trying to dig up info about my GGrandmother, Anna Elizabeth Winney, b.
1869-1871 in Wisconsin (probably Grant County). It is said that she was either
all or part Indian (our family's physical appearance would certainly confirm
this!) But WHERE did the "Indian"- part come from? I just found out that her
Grandfather's name was "Fountain Taylor" of Virginia. Has anyone ever heard of
that male first name?? I am secretly hoping that it may relate to our family's
"Indian-ness."

Thanks for any help.

Kathleen

[Sharon Arnold]

I have never heard the name Fountain as a first name, but then again my
brother-in-law's name is Famous John Taylor, he prefers to be called John.
He said that he is named after his great grandfather who was Cherokee Indian
who moved his family from Virginia to North Carolina. His grandmother
actually walked the "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma.

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[Singhals]

A couple thoughts --

1. check the IGI at familysearch.com and see if Fountain shows
up as a surname somewhere in Virginia. If it does, you can
concentrate on that area and try to discover a Miss Fountain
whose daughter or granddaughter married a Taylor. Using a
female-line surname as a given name down the descent is VERY
common in Virginia and somewhat common in Maryland. Don't
dismiss WV either, because in the time period prior to the 1869
date, WV was part of VA.

2. The more obvious -- Wisconsin is awfully near the region of
the French Voyageurs and other explorers; Fountain in French is
Fontaine. And now that I've typed it, Fontaine seems to me to be
an explorer's name ...?

Cheryl

[shmar...@ticnet.com]

There was a Fountain JORDAN knocking around Georgia in the early 1800s.
I've no idea what his background was, except that it apparently didn't
intersect with my JORDANs.

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[Lynn Dielman]

>LPurch6636 wrote:
>> I just found out that her
>> Grandfather's name was "Fountain Taylor" of Virginia. Has anyone ever heard of
>> that male first name?? I am secretly hoping that it may relate to our family's
>> "Indian-ness."
>>

My children's great-grand Uncle was Fountain Livingston Gilmore
b. 1854 in Texas Co. MO. He was at least 1/4 Native American.
His parents were Wilburn and Keziah McKinney Gilmore and
his siblings were named: Caswell, Narcissus, Mary, John, Serena,
Sarah, Amelia, James, Wilburn William, Elijah Gale, and Frances Rosa.
His native Am. grandfather was John "Conkey" Gilmre. So who knows?
8-)

The name was spelled very creatively in some census, and deeds.

Lynn in San Diego

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[Brandy M. Miller]

I would have to agree with the poster who told you that Fountain is
likely to be your grandfather's mother's maiden name. It was fairly
common back then to give one of the sons his mother's maiden name as a
first name. This was to preserve the mother's heritage, since none of
the children were likely to carry her surname any other way.

With such a unique first name, I would check to see if he appears in
any of the muster rolls or army rolls of the war of 1812, depending
upon the date of his birth. He should be fairly easy to find.

lpurc...@aol.com (LPurch6636) wrote in message news:<20020903031806...@mb-cn.aol.com>...

[Udo & Jo Ann]

I just put "Fountain Taylor" into Google and came up with several people by
that name... in Missouri, Tennessee, etc.

I just did a quick check, so you may find more.

Jo Ann

[LPurch6636]

What an interesting story, Sharon. And thanks to all who very much enlightened
me!

Kathleen

[Lou]

Yes, I have seen it in my husband's family.

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[Don Nickell]

Whenever I wonder about something such as this I put the name in the SS DI to check. In the case of Fountain <someone> there were 284 hits. Not a flood like Kathleen (61,724) but certainly not unheard of. ;-)

Don

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[LPurch6636]

Great Idea! Thanks so much, Don!

Kathleen

[Don Nickell]

Hi, Kathleen,

I guess I should have said earlier, there are several games you can play with the Rootsweb SS DI search engine. Like looking for a spouse of one of your males where you don't know her maiden name but do have an idea of a b/d date. Just enter the given name, use the "Advanced search" feature to enter the residence state. You might have to play other tricks to get it down to a mangable number of hits, but I've done that successfully many times to get dates and places.

This doesn't work as well for NY or CA, but for sensibly sized states it's really easy to find who you are looking for. Just try to double check with other sources on the Internet to feel more confident about any hit you take.

Also don't forget to play games with the Google Advanced search feature to filter your searches down to a reasonable number of hits.

Don

[ashleypatt...@gmail.com]

I just wanted to add that I'm doing my family tree and I also have a "Fountain" from Virginia! his name is Fountain Melvin Hawkins... certainly interesting.

[shado...@gmail.com]

My great grandfathers name was Fountain and it is a strong family name... but no connection to Native American anything. It is traced back to the Normans...