This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ritchie/Ruetschi Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DaB.2ACE/371.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My PA Ritchey/Ritchie etc. were actually Swiss with the original name being RUETSCHI. CONARD RUETSCHI was one of the first settlers to come to Bethlehem, PA and you can find the name there in a history done by some students. I too searched a long time for Ritchey/Ritchie in PA and could not find it until I discovered the origin. These may not be yours. Do you have any other information about them? Mine traveled from PA to North Carolina and Kentucky, then later to Minnesota.