"Lufanny" is a unusual female given name. Do you have a Lufanny in your Somerset/Mercer Co., NJ family tree that was born circa 1750 and/or married an UPDIKE/OPDYCK/etc.? If so, you may be able to confirm the theory that Roliph-5 UPDIKE married a woman named Lufanny and add a new branch to our family tree. For more information, see the excerpt below from... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~streeter/updike.pdf Thanks for your help, Perry Streeter (mailto:perry@streeter.com) http://www.perry.streeter.com Roliph-5 Updike (John-4, Lawrence-3, Johannes-2, Louris-1 Jansen), was born in New Jersey about 1750; he died in Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York about 1830; he was married, probably in New Jersey, perhaps to a woman named Lufanny _____. Roliph was named after his maternal uncle, Roelof-3 Bragaw; his name is seen as Rulef, Rolif, Ruliph, Rulif, Rulof, Roelef, Ralph, etc. Roliph was farmer in (then Montgomery, Somerset County, now) Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey and Ulysses, New York. Roliph settled in Ulysses shortly after 1800. In the 1810 federal census, "Roliff Updike" appears at Ulysses in (then Seneca, since 1817) Tompkins County. He was identified as "Ralph Updike" in the 1820 census. The first child of the compiler's direct ancestors, Daniel-3 and Mary (Updike) Richey, was born in Tompkins County about 1804; the Richey and Updike families both settled in Tompkins County about 1801. Daniel and Mary were probably married in New Jersey just before the relocation or in Tompkins County just after the move. It seemed probable that Mary's father was one of the five sons of John-4 and Mary (Bragaw) Updike who migrated to Tompkins County. Although Daniel and Mary named their eldest son Isaac, it is evident from the will of Isaac-5 Updike that he had no children of his own. However, Isaac's will includes a bequest "to Isaac Richey, son of my brother Ruliph Opdycke's daughter Mary, $100" (Opdyke, 245). That Mary (Updike) Richey's father was Roliph-5 Updike is probably established by the will of her Uncle Isaac-5 Updike. However, by the time that Isaac-5 Updike made his will on 18 April 1808, there were two first cousins named Isaac Richey and, by some accounts, both of their mothers were named Mary. There were two documented marriage between the families of Daniel-2 and Juda/Jude "Jerush" (_____) Richey and Roliph-5 Upike. John-3 Richey (Daniel-2, John-1), married Mary Ellen-6 "Nellie" Updike (Roliph-5) and Margaret-4 Richey (Lawrence-3, Daniel-2, John-1) married Ralph-6 Updike (Roliph-5) (Opdyke, 310). The available evidence suggests that there was a third marriage between these families. Other than in Opdyke, Mary Ellen-6 "Nellie" (Updike) Richey is referred to as simply Eleanor in other sources, including her tombstone. Your compiler believes that Roliph-5 Updike actually had two daughters that married Richey brothers; that the daughters' names were Mary and Eleanor; that there was no daughter named Mary Ellen; and that the author of the Opdyke genealogy created the composite name, Mary Ellen, for Eleanor to reconcile conflicting references to a grandson of Roliph-5 Updike named Isaac Richey because he was not aware of Mary (Updike) Richey and the fact that Roliph-5 Updike apparently had two grandsons named Isaac Richey. This unproven theory is supported by the following evidence: - Nellie is a nickname for Eleanor, Ellen, or Helen. - Eleanor (Updike) Richey named a daughter Eleanor. - Mary (Updike) Richey named sons Matthias and Peter - these were also names of Roliph-5 Updike's sons. - Mary (Updike) Richey and Eleanor (Updike) Richey both gave a daughter the unusual name of Lufanny; perhaps this was the otherwise unknown name of Roliph-5 Updike's wife.