[Bann Valley] Re: Torrens/Archibald connections

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In article <000701c8f8ce$fb7ec600$4301a8c0@Study>,
   ROBERT MORRISON <r.morrison11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I could never understand why they changed the spelling to Torrance.


See
http://www.Torrens.org.uk/Genealogy/Torrens/Essays/origins.html    Origin
of the surname Torrens (in all flavours of spelling)

When they left Ireland, the name was verbal, rarely written at all.

Most of the lines of direct Scottish decent nowadays spell it Torrance.

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