My Catt family are all from England. I've done a lot of research on them.
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Subject: [catt] Re: descended multiple times from Michael Katz b. 1721
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I have been away from active Catt research for sometime, but have a lull
and am
looking at message boards. It looks like you have it right.
That is, all except, the person so many call Scratch Catt and even one man
put that
on his tombstone never went by that name and wouldn't know whose
grave he was occupying if he were to rise from the dead and see the
tombstone with Scratch Catt on it. Old Phillip Catt, Sr., would think he
had been using a borrowed grave.
I try all I can to get the name Scratch out of people's genealogy. Some
folks,
dead for a number of years, thought it was "cute" to call Phillip
Catt that name as he signed his later papers with an X. As far as I know,
until the mid-1900s, noone had ever heard of a Scratch Catt.
I assume you are related to The Raymond Glass family in someway. Drove
down that
road back in July to visit Salem Cemetery again. We got a good
look at Catt Hill Cemetery this time. I can't walk uphill very easily, but
I sure would have liked to. I really think that is where George Catt, Sr.,
is buried as that was his land from in the late 1700s.
I am still trying to decide if my earlier conclusion about the two Michael
Catts
being father and son from Hochdorf that arrived on the Snow Fox in
1738. Talking to an expert in Germany this past June, he tended to think it
would be and the fact that Michael Catt, Jr., was the biological son of a
Rhom in Hochdorf and was listed that way in the confirmation and communion
records would make little difference. This fellow told me that he probably
took the surname Katz as he was subject to the military and had left without
persmission. In fact, one couldn't get permission to leave at that time.
Cary
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