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Clay: I just re-read your note, and a thought occured to me about your last comment about Dutch adding "en" to names to make plurals of families. I am fairly confident that our name in Germany in the late 1600's was ZELLEN. The area of my interest is the German/Dutch border near Kaldenkirchen, Krefeld and Goch on the lower Rhine River. My immigrant Hendrick (also in 1692 written as Heinrich) ZELLEN was fluent in Dutch, German and English. In Germany I thought the "en" ending indicated he came from a village of Zell, though some others have said if that was so, it would have been "ZELLER". Would the "en" ending of the name ZELLEN therefore indicate more of a Dutch heritage? And perhaps I should be looking a lot more in Dutch records? Any thoughts on this, and have you found any more about the early VANVOSSEN's?
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