Hi,, in browsing Online Documents from UK, ( what a great site). after looking for ancestors just for the heck of it I put in name Petronella. Grt. Grandmothers names was Anna Petronella de Freitas.. so I had searched this name for a long time.. there is a quite extensive history on that family name, Royalty. Now I am told that is was unusual and not used very often,, unless family connections.. after all its not a "pretty" girls name and it would not have been common usuage at the time we were in Grenada.. Searched Grenada high and low and there were none, except for a slave that had that name and was buried at Douglaston when the deFreitas had it.. I assume child was young and had no family. I know the Petronella originated in the Netherlands...so how and why did this name travel to West Indies and around what year? Always a challenge! Lenora