I feel that what I wrote earlier was not expressed very well! I wrote: Gg>> Correct would have been Anna Elisabeth Casparsdochter Gerrits RB> Yes - that form appears occasionally in the Cape registers but not RB> very often - assuming that the compilers of genealogies have RB> allocated that bride the correct parents (!). The form Anna Elisabeth Casparsdochter Gerrits appears nowhere in the Cape registers, but that form of naming does occasionally appear though very seldom. Thanks, Richard -- Richard Ball, Norfolk, England http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk richard.ball@ballfamilyrecords.co.uk