This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BASTION/BASTIAN, SCHERMERHORN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/2005 Message Board Post: Seeking info on Henry BASTION/BASTIAN and Elenor SCHERMERHORN, who moved with eight children to New Albany from Schenectady NY sometime after their last child was born in 1821. Don't know why they moved, or whether with his brother Sybrant, who ended up in Franklin Co. Several of Henry's children married in Franklin Co, but no evidence Henry lived there (or didn't). Some family researchers think Elenor died shortly after arrival because state marriage records show three Henry BASTION marriages between 1823 and 1838. However, census data make at least two unlikely, so I'm not sure he remarried. Henry only shows up on one IN census, in 1850, by then without a wife, living with a daughter in Jackson Co. He had lived with children for at least two years, so probably his health was frail. Since he was b. 1783, I'm guessing he died before the 1860 census. I'd like to know when and where he died. I have found several Henry Bastions in IN in his life time. I have to keep di! stinguishing him from the large family descended from one in Coal Creek, Montgomery Co. Also, I've been told New Albany was named after Albany NY, and was a Dutch settlement in its early years. As such, was it a magnet for people like the Bastions, who came from an area which still was very Dutch? Bastion was baptized Hendrick Bastiaanse, and changed his name when he came to Indiana. His wife had a New Testament in Dutch, which I have, in which she recorded her children's births in Dutch. Thanks for any info anybody can provide, or any ideas on where to look for any. Doris in Seattle