This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Germanna Surnames: BAST, BOST, KLEIN, CLINE, MOYER Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.bost/245.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: On 22 Dec 2007, KPUSSER said: >Sorry George, I should have specified That I meant >Johannes BAST , who immigrated to North Carolina with his >wife and children in 1754 from PA. He was first married >in PA to an unknown, this union produced William and Anna >Marie Bast/Bost. Johannes next married Susannah >Katherine/Catherine Moyer, who is the mother of the rest >of the children of Johannes. >(snip) OK, Kent, that helps; however, the person to whom you refer, "Johannes BAST" actually was named "Johann Wilhelm BAST (Sr.)". It is unknown why he used the name "Johannes" in some official documents, since "Johannes" was ONLY used by Germans when they had no middle name. ????? His first wife was Mary KLEIN (CLINE). The second wife's name was Susannah Catharina/Katharina MOYER, although she evidently "went by" Catharina/Katharina/Catherine/Katherine. Seeing as how she was born in the early years of the 1700's in PA, from German immigrants, her actual name, as given by her parents, was probably Susanna Katharina, which would have been the German spelling. (Susanna was the German spelling, and Susannah was the English spelling.) I don't recall seeing any German given names for Catherine/Katherine beginning with a "C", it was always a "K", and Anglicized in America to a "C". Your "Elias" is actually "Johann Elias". Don't know if I've figured out our relationship before, but using my genealogy program (RootsMagic), I find that we are 6th Cousins, once removed. Regards, George W. Durman [email protected] Knoxville, TN Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.