Those Gillenwater bother me as you know. What looks like a pure English name may be French. Why would they live and marry among Germans who speak German? And the Pippins too. Could the Gillenwater be French-named German speaking people from west of the Rhine? -eddie

>>Those Gillenwater bother me as you know. What looks like a pure English name may be French. Why would they live and marry among Germans who speak German? And the Pippins too. Could the Gillenwater be French-named German speaking people from west of the Rhine? -eddie<< Eddie, Are you speaking of the Germans who had settled in southwest Virginia, or very early settlers in Maryland, Northern Va., Pa. etc. Or, Pippins, Gillenwaters in Europe before coming to America? I'm a bit confused too... G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va..