Aquilla was used in the Dyess family.  This family is of German ancestry.

Faye
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Jilote 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: Aquilla and Equilla


Thanks Lionel,
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>At first look the names do appear to be Hispanic. These
>names were used as given, and not surnames.
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>The BEARD family used them. Of course the BEARDs may have a
>mixture of any other ethnicity. But this clan seemed to live
>in a tightknit group of Scots/Irish/German.
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>At one time there was an Etomolgy site on the web, which
>listed dozens of names and meanings, that now I can no
>longer find.
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>Janet
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>ps:  thanks for the reminder on Anglicized/Americanized. I
>was just being lazy after a 20hr computer search...  I knew
>I was writing the wrong word, but honestly was too lazy to
>look it up,  which I will defend as "temporary
>braindeadedness!" <>
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>creative laziness!>
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