(Remember This Is Taken From The Book Below), Names And Stuff Can Look A Little Different To Us >From Here Back Up Through The Generations. Will Add It To The List As I Get Parts Of It Done. Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia 1709-1768 by: Thurman Stump 1975 - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Peter Stumpff: Burgher, boatsman, fisherman b: Jan.1, 1665 d: Sept. 17, 1720 m: Anna Catharina d/o Johann Rudinger CHILDREN: 01. Johann Valentin Stumpf b:Oct. 28, 1696 m: Elizabeth d/o Christoph Haiden 02. Anna Maria Stumpf b: April 20, 1698 03. Anna Catharina Stumpf b:April 4, 1700 04. Anna Barbara Stumpf b: Jan. 29, 1702 05. Hans Peter Stumpf b: March 23, 1704 m: Nov. 7, 1730 Rosina Barbara d/o Leonhard Maurer 06. Hans Jorg Stumpf b: Nov. 29, 1706 m: Anna Sibylla d/o Barthel Backfisch 07. Hans Michael Stumpf* b: March 17, 1709 d: No record at Eberbach through 1777** Note the marriage date of the parents and the birth date of their children. The average interval for the births is aroumd twenty - three and one - half months or two years. Since the elder son, Michael Junior, of the seventh child above (Michael Senior) was born circa 1730 and that family emigrated in 1743 there is an interval of thirteen years between those dates. Sufficient time for the other five children in Michael Senior's family to have been born in the Germanies, the principality of Hess to be exact according to the present - day family legend of emigrating from Hesse. *Name recorded on colony of Pennsylvania's Philadelphia immigration lists September 30, 1743 **(Hans) Michael Stump(f), Senior, died 1768 on the South Fork, Hampshire County, colony of Virginia. Gloria Powers Husk http://www.gloryway.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/u/s/Danny-L-Husk/index.html