A major B_I_N_G_O for Nancie who has helped me alot with both the web sites!! Heres your LARK aka LERCHE http://www.atl.mindspring.com/~wsgriffi/lark.htm According to fellow researchers MR. DAVID "GAIL" COWART (e-mail: cowartd@worldnet.att.net (2 Mar 1998) and Peggy Koch (typeset999@mail.stlnet.com): Karl Lark (Lerche) was the father of my husband's ancestor (Henry Augustus Lark (1818-1879). Henry Augustus Lark was born in Mackensen (Kingdom of Hanover) on June 17, 1818. Henry's mother by name was not known. They had five children of which there are records of two older brothers who came to America before Henry Augustus. The older brothers were William and Charles Lark. The mother was known as widow Lerche-Bartels, and she died in 1894 In Wolfenbuttel, Germany." "In those days Germany was a collection of city-states, not one big country. You can find the town on a German map. It is near Hannover. Machensen was unique because many people from Scotland lived there. Back in the 1700s, the British Lords drove many Scotts off their land so the Lords could grow sheep. Cousin Gail says our ancestors had an advantage when they migrated to South Carolina from Germany. They already spoke English! He doesn't know if the family were Scotts but is curious." "H.A. Lark was Henrich Augustus Christian Lerche in the church records. He left his birthplace in Germany of April 9 1839 and arrived in Greenville in June of 1839. He was named after his god parents." -- Howdy Cousin - http://www.howdycousin.com Pickens County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/ Newberry County SC USGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/ War Between the States in SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwbts/ Civil War Pensions for SC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/civilwar/scindex.htm Parker County Genealogical Society, TX - http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpcgs/