Hi everyone! Found this on the web just now. Has lots of info and names!! http://physics.bgsu.edu/~stoner/gen/beav.html North Carolina genealogist, Buford RIMMER in his "BEAVER Book," prepared for a 1998 BEAVER family reunion, says the BIEBERs were originally French Huguenots (protestants). He quotes a 1936 letter by a BEAVER descendant, which says: "The DeBEAUVIOR family is the Biber-BEAVER family in Germany. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Huguenots were forced to leave France and they went to Deux Pont, Alsace, where they took the German equivalent of their name." There is another family tradition, repeated by genealogist Margie von Marenholtz, that the BEAVERs were originally an English family, living in Germany, who emigrated to America because they wanted their children to live in an English-speaking environment. This tradition is somewhat suspect, since the BEAVERs, once in America decided to settle in German-speaking "Pennsylvania Dutch" communities in Pennsylvania. The earliest known records of Anna Barbara's BEAVER ancestors in America are in ship passenger lists, and the diaries of German Lutheran ministers in Berks and Lehigh Counties of Eastern PA. There the name is usually spelled Bieber or Biber, which is the German word for beaver (the animal), and is pronounced the same way. The English-speaking census takers and tax collectors of the Eighteenth usually spelled the name phonetically the way they heard it, and sometimes wrote Bever or Beever. Anna Barbara BEAVER and Michael MOCK were married in Rowan County, NC, in 1804. The marriage-bond document was signed on August 1, 1804, by Michael MOCK and Davolt BEAVER. Davolt BEAVER was Anna Barbara's brother-in-law, the husband of her older sister, Betsy BEAVER -- and most probably he was also a distant cousin. But the strong circumstantial evidence from census records of 1790 and 1800, and from family associations (described later on) are that her father was a Henry BEAVER, who was probably born in Lehigh County, PA, about 1752, and died in Hamilton County, IN, sometime in the 1830s. Although no record has been found of Henry BEAVER's birth or baptism, it is probable that his father was the Michael BIBER, who arrived in the port of Philadelphia 1751 on the ship Brothers. This Michael BEAVER was one of the founders of the Weisenberg Lutheran Church in Weisenberg Township, on the western edge of Lehigh County, PA. This church had no pastor for the first few years after its founding in 1751, and there were no records kept of births during that time. There is no proof that this Michael BEAVER was Henry's father, but he was the only known BEAVER of about the right age in the geographic vicinity of the place Henry was confirmed. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes