Greetings: I thought this might be a good time to re-post since we were recently on variant spellings.. At last count, there were 29 documented variant spellings, and I've seen more. I doubt any names are discovered, but I keep an open mind. From one of the family links page at Rootsweb on grannyapple posted by the work of another researcher, Audrey Shields Hancock, and others.The variants are:found at freepge in the family homepage, and I am only including those srunames I suspect may be related to the HWE group, but no proof yet. ", ENJARD, ENJART, ENJERT, ENJOERT, ENSARDT, ENUARD, ENYARD, ENYARDT, ENGHART, ENYART, ENYEART, EUYARD, ENGAITS, INGARD, INGORT, INIART, INGRID, INNIARD, INIART, INJAART, INJARD, INYARD, INYART, INYERD, INYORD, YOREARD, YORIEAR My mother's side were all protestant, so I have to wonder what their roots were. Here's what I have so far. Many of these names were found at _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/ENYART/ENYARTnews01.html _ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/ENYART/ENYARTnews01.html) Carel Enjardt ( also seen documented as variant spellings) as Enjeart likely Flemish by origin, was born about the 1625, or possibly 1626. He was named as a passenger with a wife and 3 children from, Antwerp and arrived in the Nwe Netherlands in April of 1664.-- with 33 other individuals aboard the ship De'Eendracht (the Concord) from Amsterdam. The Captain was named as Jan Bergen. This was the last ship to arrive with colonists from Holland prior to the conquest of the New Netherland Colony by the English in September 1664. The ship's passenger list provides only limited information: Most of the above is paraphrased, and the following is copied. "Carel Enjart, from Flanders, wife and three children, 12, 8, and 4 years old. New World Immigrants, Vol. I, Gen. Pub. Co., 1979, p. 193." .."Carel settled at Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, * Jellis of whom a separate article appears below. * Alcho b. c. 1656. * Aentje b. c. 1660. Inasmuch as Staten Island's early civil and ecclesiastical records are no longer extant, it seems difficult to learn more of Carel and his wife on this side of the Atlantic Ocean; however, research continues. JELLISINYARD, son of CAREL ENJOERDT, (var: ENYEART, ENSARDT, etc) was born in Flanders 1652." More found on the family webpage: " Many of the settlers were Huguenots who departed the French provinces of the Netherlands because of religious persecution by the Catholics. In the 1600s, the Netherlands was comprised of 17 provinces -- 11 northern, in which Dutch was the predominant language, and 6 southern, where the French dialect known as Walloon was spoken. The Netherlands included all of what we know today as Belgium and part of what is modern-day France. The northern provinces were Holland, Utrecht, Zeeland, Friesland, Groningen, Overijssel, Gelderland, Northern Flanders, Brabant, Mechlin and Limburg. The 6 southern provinces were Artois, Walloon Flanders, Cambrai, Tournai, Hainault and Namur. "Jellis occupied himself as a farmer and land-owner, having purchased land in Staten Island, New York as early as 1687. His first wife was Aetje (Alice), whose maiden name has not been learned..." I have been looking for a long time to see if any of the variant names come up on this list, and to date, nothing, but if anyone recognizes or can point me in the right direction to prove or disprove that CAREL ENJOERDT (variant) was or wasn't a Hugenot, I'd appreciate the assist. Thankyou, Andrea for all your continued support. Of course, thanks also go the everyone who makes this list so informative and thought provoking! Sincerely; Christina Ottoson