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yay my dad hi mom

BTW, I forgot to mention that my husband's name is William. His father's name was William. His grandfather's name was also William. :)

You may find the following website interesting:
http://www.geocities.com/nadineholder/Entriken.html
or http://vidas.rootsweb.com/entrekin.html

[...One of the barrier ridges northward is pierced by the narrow gloomy pass of Enterkin, through which the sister vales of Nith and Clyde keep up precarious intercourse....]

the above text is taken from the following website:
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/dumfries/history1.htm

Your name is of Scottish origin. I've searched from variant to variant (Entrikin, Entriken, Entrican, Entrekin and Enterkin). It points to Scotland at the end. The name Enterkin is a place and a pass in Scotland. There is a record of a William of Enterkin Dunbar, a Scotsman. You'll find it on the following website:
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/swerner/radical/undertakers.html

Many other variants: Entricken, Entrickon, Entricon, Entrecan, etc.

The meaning i can't find. At first i thought it might be from Hendrick, but this seems very unlikely, because there are less variants starting with end- than with ent- . There is the English word entrick which means 'to trick, perplex'. Maybe this is the meaning of the placename.

Here another site about the Entrekin family:
http://www.geocities.com/byronic106/entriken.html

This leads to more variants: Entrieken, Entriekin, Entergun and Antrican.

[...To the left in amongest the hills is the Enterkin Pass where in 1684 Covenanters ambushed a party of Dragoons....]

I talked about it with someone else why someone would name himself after a pass. He had the brilliant idea that in the old days those passes were often guarded and thus inhabited.

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