Good point but the name could have been Frank, which I failed to mention. This name does appear in our family lines occassionally. Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [MDFred] Migration to Frederick County > In a message dated 11/5/02 2:59:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, > FHagan@techcomm.net writes: > > > Hi Liz, > > Thank you for this information. I and my cousins suspect the origins of > our > > Hagan line was German rather than Irish even though some of our now dead > > relatives would turn over in their graves to learn they were not Irish. We > > just cannot prove it. I have found the name spelled Hagen several times > and > > I understand this is the German spelling. I have not looked in West > > Virginia as a source of travel to Frederick but will do so now. > > Fred > > Fred- > > I don't know--I could buy HAGEN begin German--in fact, I find a Christian > Hagen listed on the PA German ship arrival lists in 1750, arriving on the > Sandwich (he signed with a mark X). I suspect, since he is listed along with > an Anthony Hachen and Julius Hachen who did sign their own names, that the > original spelling for this family name is Hachen. > > As for similar names appearing in Catholic records--I find a William Hagen > and Elizabeth Young as sponsors at the marriage of Barnabas McMollen and > Elizabeth Right at Conewago Chapel in Adams County, PA, in 1796. > > My difficulty in accepting that your HAGAN ancestor is German lies more with > the given name Francis--I have never seen a German in the mid 1700s (when the > family would be recent arrivals) with the given name Francis. > > Joan > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > Have you looked for information at the Pennsylvania Dutch website at: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >