Thanks, Ray, I have Abel Alfred Barger who married Sarah Alice Workman. I don't know anything about them, though. Pretty sure my brother in law has the Barger info. I think this line was up in Caldwell County, tho. -Sandy > alby6@juno.com wrote: > > Dear Sandy, > > I think the given name for Casper Bolch most likely came from the old > German practice of giving children a saint's name, usually as a first > name followed by the name, sometimes also a saints name, by which the > child was actually called. His full name was Johan Caspar Bolch. > According to tradition, Caspar/Gaspar was one of the Three Magi (the > others being Melchior and Balthasar, which also were used as given names > in German families). The name also gets transmuted to Jasper. The > Bolch family came from the Vosges Mountains region in Alsace-Loraine > according to a notation in an old family Bible. > > The Barger family in Lincoln County, NC was not related to the > Berrier/Berger/Barger family in Davidson County. The Lincoln (now > Catawba) County family descends from Simeon Barger, of English > extraction. He was a Quaker and came to Lincoln County from Berks > County, PA. Most of his descendants, though, did marry Germans! > > Best regards, > Ray Yount > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.