My wife's great-grandfather, Ambrose Schlegel immigrated from Bavaria, Germany to America in the early 1880s. He was a famous potter and founding member of the Van Briggle Pottery in Colorado Springs, CO: http://www.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/Project/admin/FullDisplay.asp?ID=1095 It is still in business today... CM >From: ViniL@aol.com >To: TNHAWKIN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TNHAWKIN] Popular names >Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:21:04 EST > >It is always interesting to me where and why popular names came about. We >often see president's names but others are not so obvious. I wonder where >Ambrose came from originally? >