Nell, why did you reply to me? The PFALZ list is Reply to List and if you click on Reply the reply should go back to the list and not to the sender. bob gillis Texas1933@aol.com wrote: > > Oh, you are certainly correct, Robert. In documents Davault is recorded > Debolt, Theobald, Daywalt, etc. and even the surname is Peck, Peack, > etc. To me Theobald is the most likely spelling. The names as recorded in America were what a probably English speaking recorder thought the German Theobold Beck said. Before the cousins go they should search Familysearch.org and rootsweb.ocm for him and his children who were born in Germany. They should buy a book in German genealogical research and read it and take with them. bob gillis In a biographical sketch of his great granddaughter, it is > Daywalt. His ship Phoenix lists him as Debolt, and it goes on! Thakns. > bob gillis wrote: > Davault is not a German given name and and I suspect it is a variation > that the recorders heard or he adopted after he was in America. What > was his age in 1750, who was his wife and who were his children that > came with him and their ages.