This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2FC.2ACI/1607.1 Message Board Post: Bentrop would be an unusual surname. Are you sure Bentrop is not a place name instead? There is a village named Bentrop in Lippe, south of Minden, Westfalen. Similarl, "Ecke" is "corner" in German, and may mean something other than a surname, depending on how the information on your ancestor is worded. Good luck.