There are two HEYLIGER women listed on the select pages that I copied from the St.Croix, Christiansted Free Colored Women 1831-1832. p. 62 No 961 Arabella HEYLIGER 19 p. 79 No 1253 Marie af? HEYLIGER 35 Andrea In a message dated 6/18/2003 3:17:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, CARIBBEAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I am researching all families of St.Croix > prior > to 1740s with the following surnames: > RUAN-ROUAN-ROUAND/T > RICHARDSON > HEYLIGER > BARNES > DEWINDT > GUMBS > (among others) > > thank you, > > Jason Carpenter

In the Danish Civil records the af Danish for of would be used for someone lacking the papers acknowledging blood relationship with a family from Europe. In some cases they were simply unacknowledged and in others merely former property.