This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCBRIDE, FRY, WOLF, CARLE, HOGUE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/5944.1 Message Board Post: When my gg-grandfather James MCBRIDE died, the only info on his Death Certificate said "Unknown" for father and "From Ireland" for his mother. James' 1st son/child was named John. Not sure what either Irish or German (James' 1st wf was Polly K. WOLF) naming conventions were but just supposed that maybe James' father was a John. I don't know anything about the MCBRIDE origins, but James was born in Centre Co. and moved down to Venango at some point. Your German wf for your John is the only stumbling block I see, but maybe someone in MY family screwed up. (By the way, James' 2d wf was a German FRY. Were Irish women that hard to find?) Pat McBride