Hi Richard, I have been looking all over Puerto Rico for the last name CHRISTIAN, I remember my father telling me that his grandpa came from England, but I am beginning to think that maybe he came from one of the islands in the Caribbean, Barbados, Jamaica etc. etc. His name was RICHARD CHRISTIAN and I guess he came to P.R. in the early 1800s as his wife, Maria de los Santos Orellana, was born around 1827 in the town of Bayamon, P.R I will really APPRECIATE ANY help, anything to be honest. thanking you in advance Macky Lebron Montalban Orange, CA ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Macky: Christian is a common name in most of the English-speaking Caribbean. The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico have had much movement of workers and students back and forth. I looked in the Danish Demographic Database (http://ddd.dda.dk/soeg_stcroix.html) for the U.S. Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies) and found several Richard Christians. I imagine you will find more with variations in spelling. Do you have any other information, a date of death, church record of marriage or death, etc. which might give you a bit more info? If you assume that your Richard was close to the age of his wife, he could have gone to Puerto Rico in the mid 1800s. Sonia St. Croix > From: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:14:52 EDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Livingston, San Andres and Old Providence etc. etc. etc > > Hi Richard, I have been looking all over Puerto Rico for the last name > CHRISTIAN, I remember my father telling me that his grandpa came from > England, > but I am beginning to think that maybe he came from one of the islands in the > Caribbean, Barbados, Jamaica etc. etc. His name was RICHARD CHRISTIAN and > I guess he came to P.R. in the early 1800s as his wife, Maria de los Santos > Orellana, was born around 1827 in the town of Bayamon, P.R > > I will really APPRECIATE ANY help, anything to be honest. > > thanking you in advance > > Macky Lebron Montalban > Orange, CA > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > 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