Helsley/Heltsley
I am a researcher who has been working on the Helsleys for 25 years.I have recently learned of a book by Brenda Doss, which indicates that Philip Wendel Heltzel and Nicholas Helzel (progenitor of the VA Helsley and Heltsleys) were brothers.What is the documentation for that?
I've never found anything like that, and while they both settled in York, PA, they were in different townships and there seems to be no record of them ever buying selling land, witnessing each other's documents, etc.The ones who stayed in PA kept the T and often the Z in the name, most who went to VA changed to Helsley.If there is a documented link between Philip Wendel Heltzel (the Tobias line) and Nicholas Helzel, I'd love to know it!