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Author: fjzclu
Surnames: Catt Katz Mason Maurer
Classification: queries
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The "Catt book" is a wonderful book, but there are a fair number of errors. I
have checked some of the footnotes, for instance, and found typos that made it difficult
(but not impossible) to get copies of the information to which the footnotes refer. So,
just be sure that you double check everything!
I am in Cascade Chapter, DAR (Bellevue, Washington), and no, won't be going anywhere
this summer -- I broke my leg, and am well on the way to recovery (which cannot come fast
enough!) but it hinders me going too many places.
Have you checked early marriages in Pennsylvania for the marriage of Catherine Mason and
Johannes Katz? Their first child, George, was born March 5, 1781 in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, and I'm wondering if her name was always "Catherine Mason" or
if it was something else (Caterina, for instance; grandparents were "Maurer"
which became "Mason").
Johannes Katz/John Catt from what I have - not my original work, either, probably copied
from "Catt Family in America" by W. Cary Anderson - shows he was born 19 June
1758 near present-day Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia -- but of course that was
all disputed territory before the boundary between what was then Pennsylvania and Virginia
was settled.
So I'd suggest looking for marriage records in Pennsylvania AND Virginia for about
1780 -- and good luck on that! I'll let you know if I find out anything, also.
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