The "Myers" problem

He was pretty chipper and fun to listen to, as he recalled people used to insist he spell his name Louis since there was no "saint" Lewis, which is an English spelling. I have a book of the Myers family, where 250,000 Myers' are in the U-S mostly State, the old State of Ohio, and the next largest group 25,000 families in Yorkshire, England. As you may know actor Mike Myers' family were from Liverpool, England nearby Yorkshire (Uncle Lew was once in the theater arts in summer stock in Connecticut I think). Interestingly there are now "Myers" in Austria and very, very few in comparison in Germany. Dad once said when I told him, "They chased them all out" from there. Though I also read "Meyer" or "Meyers" from Germany changed their names to the English "Myers" sometimes in Pennsylvania etc., to be more acceptable. I think there were quite a few on the British side of the Revolution too perhaps, which the British had many Irish and German Hessians fight for them as "mercenaries," many unwitting perhaps unwilling too, I've read. Also about 50 percent of the Hessians ran away once they got here and "checked it out".