THE OTHER BECKER-STUMP MARRIAGE: The Becker-Stump marriage that most of us have heard of is that of Elizabeth Becker (daughter of Elder Peter Becker) and Jacob Stump (son of Julian Stump and his second wife Maria). The Beckers and the Stumps were Brethren together in Düdelsheim from 1711, and emigrated together from Krefeld in 1719 with the first major wave of Brethren. The other Becker-Stump marriage that most of us have not heard of is that of Maria Catharina Becker (brother of Valentine Becker who emigrated with Alexander Mack in 1729) and John Stump (oldest son of Julian Stump and his first wife Elizabeth, and therefore half-brother of Jacob Stump). This marriage took place November 11, 1726, Christ Church, Philadelphia. Because Maria Catharina [Becker] Stump arrived in the new world some years earlier than her brother, Valentin Becker, and because her marriage to John Stump caused quite a stir with Conrad Beissel for "having married too near a relation," I believe that Maria Catharina [Becker] Stump was part of the Becker-Stump contingent that came over in 1719. Valentine Becker was a young man who was left behind in Krefeld. He married Stintgen Frantzen, October 23, 1723, Evangelisch, Krefeld. Stingen's name was spelled "Stinkee" on the Ship Allen list in 1729. Actually Stintgen ("Stinkee") is the equivalent of Christine or Christina. Having established that Valentine Becker and Maria Catharina [Becker] Stump were siblings, there remains the task of ascertaining their parentage. I suspect that they were from the Marienborn, Düdelsheim, Stockheim area in Hessen. I also suspect that they were fairly closely related to Elder Peter Becker. Despite Peter Becker's famous name, we still don't know about his birth family. Dwayne Wrightsman