And Ost is German for east. So that part is believable. Linda Stingel-May Ussery Printing Cell 214 957 9219 On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Curtis Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just for the record, Stophel is the nickname for Christopher. It is the diminutive form of Chris. An el on the end makes it the diminutive. The diminutive for maiden for example is Madel. A little cat is Kaetzel and so on. >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:30:39 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Rob Lowe's Hessian Grenadier Ancestor >> >> >> Cory, >> I thought that was a little far fetched...but if the accent and Christopher was misspelled it could be interpreted as Christolphel a Hession?? >> Also I thought they stretched it a little..Oste is East? WEll maybe... >> Don't know about a paper to sign as most did not read or write either..remember most were an equal or just above English serfs....but they did have to swear an oath.. so a record?? Maybe! you were educated only if your family was established or had monies.. there was no government paid schooling... >> >> >> >> Nelda L. Percival -PLEASE copy paste links >> Genealogy - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm >> GeneticGenealogy - http://www.geneticsand.us >> Blog - http://aircastles-lets-talk.blogspot.com/ >> GilpinGenetics: not up yet >> Administrator of Y-DNA surname projects Gilpin, Cupp,Bonstein >> Web Mistress for LCRG - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molcgdrg >> >> >> >> >> >> PLEASE CHECK ALL OF YOUR SUBJECTS! >> ~~~~~~~~~ >> FOUNDER: John H. Merz 1924-2006 Created 1998 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ADMINISTRATOR<Kerri> [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > PLEASE CHECK ALL OF YOUR SUBJECTS! > ~~~~~~~~~ > FOUNDER: John H. Merz 1924-2006 Created 1998 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ADMINISTRATOR<Kerri> [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message