Hi all, At 05:33 PM 1/3/01 EST, Ina Friling InaFri@aol.com wrote: >My Huguenot Ancestors from STRASBURG, UCKERMARK (about 1625- 1750) > >1. Guillaume FOUQUET, *ca. 1628 in Jeantes, Thierache, Picardie, France, oo >Susanne FIERE (or FIERET) at 15 Dec. 1653 in Frankenthal, Pfalz (Palatinate), >lived in Billigheim (Pelicam), Archenweyer part of Steinweiler, Minfeld, (all >in Pfalz south of Landau), + 1688 in Carlsdorf, Hessen. >2. Susanne FIERE (or FIERET), * ca. 1625 in Cuiry, Thierache, Picardie, >France, oo Guillaume FOUQUET at 15 Dec. 1653 in Frankenthal, Pfalz >(Palatinate), lived in Billigheim (Pelicam), Archenweyer part of Steinweiler, >Minfeld, (all in Pfalz south of Landau), Strasburg, Uckermark since 1691, *1 >Jan 1700 in Fahrenwalde, Bergholz, Uckermark. >Sources: >Church Book of the French Reformed Church of Strasburg, Uckermark at the EZAB >(evangelical central archive Berlin) >Wilhelm Beuleke: Die Hugenottenkolonie zu Strasburg in der Uckermark, 1982 >Family research from about 1940 by Siegfried Nolte >Archiv der Stadt Frankenthal, Pfalz I am interested in a Huguenot family that was in the Landau area a little later and was referred to in various places as Ferree, Ferrie, Fuehre, Fierre, Firre, Ferie. (The line I'm interested in semmed to settled on Ferree in Pennsylvania, USA.) In 1708 they went to England. Before leaving they got permission. That document says in part (translated from the original German): "Whereas Maria, Daniel Fuehre's widow, and her son Daniel Fuehre ...purpose to emigrate from Steinweiler in the mayoralty of Bittigheim , High Bailiwick Germersheim, via Holland and England, to the island of Pennsylvania..." Dated March 10th, 1708 [I think that should be Belligheim, not Bettigheim, as there is a town today called Belligheim near Steinweiler.] They also got a certificate from their church. This says in part (translated from the original French): Temoignage pour Daniel Firre et sa famille. "We, the Pastor, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Walloon Church of Pelican, in the Lower Palatinate,..." I have not been able to find Pelican on a map. Does anyone know where it is? The children of Daniel, Jr. were baptised at Steinweiler in 1701 and Rhorbac [Rohrbach?] in 1703. The source for my info above is: History of Lancaster County [PA, USA] by I. Daniel Rupp, 1844, chapter 2. Due to the similar names, places, and time, I wonder if my people above are related to the people Ina mentioned. I would also like to know the ancestors of my Daniel Fuehre/Firre, Sr., and his wife, Maria Warenbuer. Daniel and Maria were supposedly born about 1650/1653. So, I wonder if Daniel could have been the son of a brother of Ina's Susanne. Thanks for any insight. Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com