With a slight mispelling you have a perfectly good Polish first name for a man. Bl~az~ej . The l has a line through it (to make it pronounce close to English "w" ) and the z has a dot (which makes it pronouced the same as "rz" in Polish). I believe the English equivalent name is Blaise. > > Anyway, I have just discovered the names of his parents were Blarzaj Jagla > and Mary Wesel. hmmmm Now I'm thinking that Blarzaj is a name totally > new to > me. Maybe it is German afterall? > Carol Atkinson