In a message dated 6/23/2006 3:22:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, bflynn1@optusnet.com.au writes: Joannes Flos and Cathri Senecus Bernadette, Those names seem to be Latin -- especially Senecus. I wonder if the priest even Latinized the surnames? If he did, your first job is to try to find out how to spell those names in German or Czech. If you have the original document with those names on it you might try enlarging it a bit to see if Senecus is misspelled. Both Germans and Czechs lived in Bohemia which was just west of Bavaria and north of Austris -- not all that close to the Netherlands. The Austrians ruled the Netherlands in 1718 and they kept military garrisons there. The Netherlands also provided the most important export ports in Europe back then and would attract a lot of German businesses associated with that trade. There are both business and military reasons why German Bohemians would be there. You might start by going to familysearch.org. On the home page is a place to enter a surname for a search. If you search with Flos you will find there were people by that name in Kutna Hora Bohemia (a city east of Prague). Kutna Hora was an important and very wealthy mining center during the early 18th Century. A lot of the miners and people associated with the mines were ethnic Germans. If you search with Senecus you get nothing. I believe that name is misspelled -- you have to find out what it really should be or try some variations yourself. Karen