In researching, your Webmistress has often wondered about many of the given names that seem to have made their way through many Grainger County families.  They don’t appear to be biblical or to be married-in surnames.  Most of them don’t appear to have descended through generations of forebears before showing up in Grainger County.

Do you know the source for any of these names?  Do you have names you’ve wondered about in Grainger County families?

• Corum/Coram
• Creed
• Fielden
• Leander
• Prior/Pryor
• Tandy
• Torrance
• Xen