That was interesting. There were 3 with my last name that came over in 1635 but that doesn't mean that I am a direct descendant of any of those 3. For all I know my line may not have migrated to the new world until the 1700s or even the early 1800s. My uncle has tracked our lineage back to 1820 something here in the US.

Here's something that many of you may not have considered. There wasn't a very high percentage of people back then that were literate or even partially, and sometimes the spelling of names relied on the ships scribe, a court clerk, clergyman or a census takers interpretation and/or guess of how a name should be spelled. For instance my last name is one of these.
Maddocks
Maddix
Mattix
Maddox
Madducks
Maddux
Mattocks
Matucks
Mattucks
And I think there are a few more versions that come from an area of Wales. The names don't necessarily, but the people do. And a lot of people had no idea about how to spell their own name and the dialect in which they spoke often determined how someone wrote it.

My wife's maiden name was Leath but less than 40 miles from where she grew up she has relatives that spell their name Leeth. The name was derived from Leather or Leatherman somewhere down the road.