This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5696.1 Message Board Post: Your email was unclear when it was sent to the Kent County list. Forrest Williams is not a Dutch name. Was he Catholic? There was only one Dutch Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, St. Joseph near Grandville Avenue. This was a poor, poorly educated laborer neighborhood of very early Dutch settlers in Grand Rapids. . And how did a Dutch boy from Grand Rapids meet a Catholic girl from Detroit? You are just assuming he was married? Back then a Dutch protestant boy with a Catholic girl would have been unacceptable as it was even up to Vatican II in 1968. A protestant/Catholic marriage would have been opposed. You seem to be making some unclear assumptions.