Gerry and Anne... Just another thought. Those Riesers came on the same boat to the US as the Bacher family. Also, the "Rester" family married in with the Denmarks--Stephens daughter Elizabeth married a Rester as well as Frederick Rester marrying a Denmark. Now Stephen is mentioned as the J.P. whose signed one of those land documents the included Felix Geiger. So the Denmarks and Resters were close and both known by the Geigers. In addition, Frederick Rester moved to Perry Co., MS. Believe he was granted some land or something. Ann Stafford, the daughter of Mary Geiger Stafford Huffman also ends up in the same place...married to a Travis, I think. Not only did these people live near one another, it appears that the families were interconnected in business, maybe marriage, ect. Looks like you may both be really be on to something! Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 12:32 AM Subject: [GEIGER] Apollonia - maiden name > Hey Cousins: > > Am I Excited???? > > I was perusing the listing of Original Georgia Salzburger Settlers > <http://www.crosswinds.net/~djmabry/salzburger/salzsett.html> which was > taken from George Fenwick Jones, ed. Detailed Reports on the Salzburger > Emigrants Who Settled in America, Vol. X, (Athens, GA: The University of > Georgia Press, 1988), pg 134-135. > > Under the 2nd Salzburg Transport which arrived on 28 Dec 1734 aboard the > Prince of Wales of Capt. George Dunbar, there is a Thomas Bacher(d1748) and > his wife, Maria Schweiger, with two daughters, Apollonia (b1729) and > Maria(b1727) who married Balthasar Rieser in 1752... > > Am I Excited???? > > Page 48 of The Ebenezer Record Book lists a Rester (nee, Rieser??) couple as > sponsors at the Baptism of Ulric's daughter, Rachel in 1769, and Page 64 > lists a Rister (nee, Rieser??) couple as sponsors at the Baptism of Ulric's > son, Cornelius in 1774... > > How logical can it be that the brother-in-law or nephew of our Grandmother > Apollonia would sponsor her children's Baptism...So her maiden name would be > Bacher, and it was right before our noses all the time...moreover, this same > couple is listed on several other pages with the name spelled "Rester." > > A birth year of 1729 would be a compatible age to marry Ulric. > > Comments anyone??? > See you at Ebenezer next weekend. > > Gerry > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > ______________________________