timmopussycat wrote:I suspect that Patrick DuCain comes from a family of Havenite refugees who left Haven as refugees and later changed the spelling of the family name for reasons similar to those that impelled my Huguenot Pournelle ancestors who changed the spelling of the family name to Parnell when they arrived in England and later Ireland.
Or he comes from Hugonot ancestry via Ireland or the US and emigration from France long before the Diaspora and doesn't have any relations in Haven at all.