Nancy: There never was a duke of Hope Capel As I said in my previous message, you are misreading the scharfes ess ( ß ) as a "p" and the handwritten "e" as an "o." The hand written scharfes ess will extend below the line and can easily be mistaken for a "p" If you substitute the letters you will see that what was written was actually Hesse Cassel it was not translated. Take some time to learn how words in German were spelled and listen to the advice of those who know better! David Rorer ----- Original Message ----- From: <NancyL916@aol.com> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:17 AM Subject: [HESSE] Re: Hope Capel > I want to thank everyone who took the time to respond to me question abt Hope > Capel. > I'm looking at the Nat. papers and it definetly says Hope Capel. > > It's possible the person writing out the Nat cert. that that is how he heard > it, but on every other paper I have it says this realitive is from Hesse > Darmstadt, so how that translate to Hope Capel is odd. > > Perhaps I'll get out my hystery books and see if there ever was a Duke of > such place for the time. > > Thanks again > > Nancy > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Looking for old messages? > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/HESSE.html > Search or Browse > >