Talk:Jonathan Trumbull

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Do we have a source for the early "Trumble" name? That would perhaps clarify why he was born under one name and then changed it. - Pernambuco 00:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I am a Trumbull and I have searched for YEARS on the meaning of my name and why it was changed and i have came up with nothing. At the same time there are a few lines of Trumbulls. The spellings are Trumbull, Trumble, and I have yet to be able to link the family trees together

Perhaps "Trumble" was an intermediate misspelling (possibly an attempt to "correct" it to match words like "rumble" and "humble")? This is based on the fact that the shield of Yale's Trumbull College consists of three bull heads. If the "bull" weren't an original part of the name's meaning, then it seems unlikely (though I suppose it's possible) that the shield would have been created to portray bulls just because the name sounds like "bull." Bgwwlm 05:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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