Bruce: Sorry I only checked out the one name on your request. AS for TOUCHON: Canton Neuchatel - La Sagne (a) - resided there before 1800 \Neuchatel - from about 1603 (came from La Sagne) Again this is from Swiss Surnames. Hope this is of help to you. Joe Wolfe On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:08:29 -0800 "Bruce Cardner" <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> writes: > Joseph, > > Thanks for your response. Yes, it does help. I am just having to > take baby > steps here, as this is the first time I have researched in another > country. > All of our other lines were here very early on, even to 1620, and > they have > been researched fairly well. > > This one is hard. Touchon is such a rare name. People have written > me > about my first post, saying that they recognize other surnames, but > not > Touchon. I hope that by making progress on the others, I will find > the > Graus and Touchons. > > I had to print off a map, and I have to sit there and find all these > places. > I feel very inexperienced about it. > > I am saving your email and will refer back to it as I need to. > > Thank you again. > > Sydney Cardner (the Sydney is female) > Florida > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph E. Wolfe <joeedwolfe@juno.com> > To: BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> > Cc: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com>; > dschmutz@es.com > <dschmutz@es.com> > Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: [SWITZ] Surname HAMM > > > >Bruce: Accoirding to SWiss Surnames there is only one area in > Canton > >Fribourg that > >has Grau name in it before 1800; Ried bei Kerzersw (a) > >The name appears also in other cantons before 1800 > >Canton Bern - Wynigen (a) > >Canton LuZerne - Emmen (a) > > -Ebikon - (b) from 1800 to 1850 > >St Gallen Canton - Haggenschwil (a) > >Zurich canton - Dietikon (a) > > > >Hope this wil be of some help. Joe Wolfe > > > >On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:58:54 -0800 "Bruce Cardner" > ><BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> writes: > >> I am trying to place a Bertha HAMM in the family below: > >> > >> William E. TOUCHON and wife Marie Louise GRAU left Neuchatel for > the > >> USA in > >> 1893. They had one daughter born in Le Locle named Bertha. A > son, > >> Jules > >> Ernest TOUCHON, was perhaps born there also. Other children were > >> born in > >> Connecticut. > >> > >> An elderly relative says that there are two Berthas connected as > >> sisters > >> somehow, or perhaps daughters of sisters, of Marie GRAU. There > is > >> a Bertha > >> DESAULES and a Bertha HAMM. She says in her letter that the > >> DESAULES were > >> in New Jersey, and she refers to Bertha HAMM as being in > California. > >> I do > >> not have any dates on them except one: she mentions that an > Edward > >> DESAULES > >> died in 1953, apparently in NJ. > >> > >> I just recently received this letter, and I have not absorbed it > all > >> yet. I > >> gather that DESAULES and HAMMS and GRAUS were connected even back > to > >> Neuchatel. I am not sure of this though. A birth certificate > shows > >> that the > >> GRAU line came from Fribourg. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: davist@lexmark.com <davist@lexmark.com> > >> To: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > >> Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:16 AM > >> Subject: [SWITZ] Surname HAMM > >> > >> > >> >Is anyone seaching the Surname Hamm? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > >> >Swiss Resource Site > >> >http://swiss.genealogy.net > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > >> Going on vacation? Gone longer than 4 days? > >> mail to Switzerland-L-request@rootsweb.com > >> subject line: unsubscribe > >> nothing in message > >> > > >