lizzy borden, not the band

i am the end of the line as far as my family goes. i was just sitting here thinking about things my parents/grandparents told me years ago, don't know why that came to mind. wish i had kept the list of names my mother had given me years ago. i know my extended family did spend some time in the new england states. my mother told me that sometime in the late 1800s or so someone changed our name to try to get rid of the past, apparently there was a bunch of horse thiefs, prostitutes, bank robbers and what not in my family. i believe they were the sherets, have no idea how to spell it...