It was common in this area among the Pennsylvania German to give their children two or even three names and that the first one would never be used, as was the case with other families. This custom tended to die out by about 1850 in most cases. Justin At 10:13 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: > So, is there other evidence that Pa. Dutch folks who came to Centre Co. >maintained older cultural ways, perhaps including therefore this question of >one <John Casper Roß> really being known as <Casper>?