A Name

**donnydarkoIRL** · 01-21-2009 04:05 PM

It's a pretty cool way to honour your ascendants.

But on the other hand, you've already forged your own legacy and I believe you've personified your name - made it yours and would be siomply putting a new label on an already perfected* product.

*Yes I did just avoid saying old

**Scrap** · 01-21-2009 05:19 PM

CFH the reason the English got Him, He was a founder member of the IRA. Donny, John married a Protestant, and there was Hell on, it wasnt the thing to do then was it.There was a Story what an old Irish Lady told me years ago when meeting Her, She reconized me as an O,neil when I said my name was Rainey Her reply was Oh I remember someone had told her the History but she wouldnt elaberate, Im finding out qiute a bit anything else you here let me know.

**amat** · 01-22-2009 12:04 AM

My name wouldn't have changed but my mom's would of. My great great grandfather was the Mexico ambassador to the US. I'm not quite sure of the history but they had a giant house on the hill and basically a whole compound of people who worked for them. Well eventually some people got angry and set fire to the house where some of the staff lived and they were forced to flea on a huge boat as the house was set fire.

My great great grandfather then sold the boat to I think his name is Giovanni Pannini? The founder of Bank of America the one who formed it after the earthquake. They sold it to him and bought a house on 29th street in San Francisco which my family still owns.

OK thats all nice but anyways when my great great grandfather came to America he Americanized his name and changed it to Howell. My grandpa is the descendant of them, he put the final touch on my familiy's Americanization, marrying an Irish woman and he didn't teach any of his kids Spanish which my mom still gives him shit about.

Matson is my name I have no idea what that means, I just see it on all the cargo shipments out there in Oakland. I don't have any of that money.