Hello Hawthorne House friends, this is from Margaret, editor of the Hawthorne Community Association’s website, where you are reading now.
I live in Kennebunkport and attend The Church on the Cape in Cape Porpoise. Our new usher is Jim Hathorne – what a name! Jim is a cousin of our Nathaniel! Well, he is actually the 5th cousin 5 times removed of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Closer than most!
Jim wrote:
Hey Margaret, thank you for asking me about my last name. I adore history and I have been doing genealogy for almost 50 years! Everyone strives to be related to someone famous. It is interesting to see the different ways our name has been spelled. Many years it was spelling by sound.
Thank you for asking ~~Jim Hathorne,
Past President, and founding member of the Brewer Maine Historical Society!!
(or https://www.facebook.com/BrewerHistoricalSociety)
