[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Jesswein or Gesswein

[Annegret Krause]

Dwayne,
I suppose, it's the same name. In the Low German of eastern Europe
Gesswein is pronounced Jesswein. So I think, Jesswein is the phonetic
spelling of the Low German pronunciation. But it could be, that there
were different groups in the family: some who wrote Jesswein and some
who wrote Gesswein. I my family I have analogical phenomenons: Flemming
and Flemke, Gurske and Gurski and so on.
 
Annegret