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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 633705, member: 5833&quot;]Have been keeping my reading to myself, in an effort not to influence how others might see it, which is as T (or F) Mocchi.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know that the name is not German, although Germany is known for its lapidary work.&nbsp; They had large agate deposits, while the cameists of Naples &amp; Rome had ready access to materials provided by the Mediterranean.&nbsp; The French did beautiful work in both, as well as in glass paste.&nbsp; Of course, people do not always live &amp; work in the country where their surname originated.&nbsp; Luigi Michelini started in Rome, but moved to Paris &amp; stayed there.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the name ends in &#039;hr&#039; what would you make of what comes before that?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That possibility has not been taken up already.&nbsp; It could be.&nbsp; If it is, what are the letters around it &amp; how would you pronounce that part?&nbsp; In what language?&nbsp; In Italian you don&#039;t much see an h except after c or g to indicate the hard pronunciation.&nbsp; The name Chighi is an example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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