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Skriv ut sidan - GIBSON, Nils (1833-1896) Swedish Mariner in Queensland
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Titel: GIBSON, Nils (1833-1896) Swedish Mariner in Queensland
Skrivet av: Robert Jensen skrivet 2006-02-02, 03:46
Yes I am quite certain you are right, indeed I have seen it done two times before (meaning that other Scandinavians with similar names Jeppesen/Jeppson and the likes has become Gibson) I have records of 23 000 Scandinavians in pre 1914 Australia (primarily Queensland) so I have seen a few. It has to do with the pronounciation, names were to be spoken, not written in this period, so many migrants did not necessarily wish to anglizese their names, but they wish to hear it pronounced somewhat corectly. It is thus nut unusual at times to see that some Danish migrants with familynames beginning with J, had their names written with Y as jensen became Yensen, as this is in fact the correct pronounciation in English. One avoids what to a dane is a Djay pronounciation of J