This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mache Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/93.410.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, I haven't got anything on New York Mache's. Mache and Bertha and Frederick Augustus are names that appear frequently in my German family records, so you may be on track with the idea that she's German. Good luck. Pam