At 03:05 PM 01-05-1998 -0500, you wrote: >Hello Martha: > >Once again I am amazed at the work you have done on the ROLL's and I >appreciate the information. I am actively pursuing Sickles vs. >Strickhauser at this time. Barbara Barth is writing an article on >the Roll's for the NY G & B which will be published next fall and >would like to know the surname of Elizabeth (don't we all!). A Van >Woggelum researcher approached me a couple of years ago on Barbara's >behalf and I sent info then (that article will be out soon, I will >scan my copy and send it out). Barbara is now on line and found >Bill's home page, he referred her to me. The editors at the NY G & B >demand proof. I do not have proof of John Roll's birth, does anyone? > The marriage? > >A few years ago, another researcher, Carol Personnette Comfort found >Elizabeth Strickhauser, we both had seen Elizabeth Sickles and >discounted her because of the baptism record of Robbert De Groot, >with father Johannes De Groot. I did not realize was that Elizabeth >Sickles father was named Robert until you mentioned it a few weeks >ago. I have always maintained the Strickhauser was not proved, also >no one could prove Sickles either. Strickhauser made sense to us >because of grandson, Baltus and daughters, Catherine and Jane. Jane >possibly named for grandmother Jannetje Du Chesne and Catherine >possibly for grandmother Catharina Krobel (Strickhauser). This may >be one of the problems that will never be proved. > >I will write to the people this afternoon and maybe one of them will >be able to help. > >Thanks again, from a shaking So Calif. > > > >____ >Nancy Lohbrunner >[email protected] > > Dear List Members, I may not be contributing to the discussion, but am reading every word with great interest. Thanks for the postings. -Bill _________________________________________________________________ William Henry Roll Blythe, California [email protected] The Roll Family Genealogy Windmill http://members.aol.com/whroll "A thousand candles have burned themselves out; yet I read on."