| I looked at the 1850 census images for Ronda or Rhonda, and found a whole lot of Rhoda's, spelled Rhoada in many cases. With the type of script they used then, a script lowercase a could be easily mistaken for a n, especially if the census taker had a habit of not completing the top of the a. However, there was a 4 year old from Norway, living in Wisconsin, whose name was RONDA Andersson. Maybe she was the first! |