Re: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS (Buttman, Putman, Boutemont)

Posted By: Tarkus
Date: 6 February 2003

In Response To: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS (jean herbert)

This may be way off base; however, there may be one or more surname changes. The boats listed in Bill Putman's German wesite are some of the ships in which the Swiss and German Palatinates came to America in the 1700s. Several of the Palatinates arrived in Darke County (check the records of Miami county too!) as the west was open in the early 1800s.

http://www.billputman.com/GERMAN.htm (the rest of the text, below, is from the site)

"It seems that the German Putmans descend from a family in the German Palatinate originally spelled Boutemont which was French and then later 'Germanized' to Buttman, and then 'Anglicized' in America to Putman as the German B sounds like the English P. Boutemont was pronounced Bootmon which changed quickly to Putman here.

"The first of the family to come to America was Andreas or Andrew. He came on the ship Osgood and landed in Philadelphia on September 29, 1750.

"On September 25, 1751 Philip Boudemont arrived in Philadelphia on the Phoenix from Rotterdam by way of Portsmouth, England.

"Based on a great deal of research by Dick Heller of Mission, Texas and Patricia McKinna of Houston, Texas, Bettie Cornell of Frederick, Maryland, and Bill and Betty Eynon we are able to begin to sort out the early history of this family.

"The Boudemonts were French Huguenots that had fled just across the border into Germany in the early 1600s. The name was originally Boutemont and that was changed into the more Germanic spelling like many others in the Paletinate area of Southwest Germany on the French Border.

"The earliest member of the family we can trace was Jacob Boudemont."

Messages In This Thread

BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS -- jean herbert -- 7 January 2003

Re: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS -- Jerry Higgins -- 11 January 2003

Re: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS -- Melinda Zibrida -- 12 January 2003

Do you mean Unger / Britt? -- Tarkus -- 6 February 2003

Re: Do you mean Unger / Britt? -- Melinda Zibrida -- 6 February 2003

Ung(r)er, Britt (Butt) & Who was Joe Fox? -- Tarkus -- 7 February 2003

Re: Ung(r)er, Britt (Butt) & Who was Joe Fox? -- Melinda Zibrida -- 8 February 2003

Re: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS (Buttman, Putman, Boutemont) -- Tarkus -- 6 February 2003

Re: BOTT/BUTT/BUTTS (More on Annie) -- Tarkus -- 6 February 2003

Butt (Munger) Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~oh -- Tarkus -- 7 February 2003

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