Person:Unknown Catcott (1)

Could this Catcott have been named "BENJAMIN"?

--White Creek 07:06, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

On WeRelate.org there are 9 people with the surname "CATCOTT". All posted by "White Creek"; who does not know the origin of this family.

This might be a good place to stop and briefly explain the religious situation in the mid 1800's in the Phillipsburg, Ohio area (later named "Stone Creek"). In 1841 a Lutheran Congregation was founded a short distance to the northwest of the Tuscarawas County village. Soon an incoming tide of German Reformed pioneers arrived in the area. It was agreed to share the same building by both congregations, but they kept their separate identities and records, while the church was called the "Zions Congregation".

"White Creek's" project (as described on his homepage) is focused upon the history of about 50 German Reformed families from the German Palatinate (west of the Rhine River). They originated from about a dozen small villages, around the village of WALDGREHWEILER, who settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio and Wabash County, Indiana.

Surprisingly, there was almost no marriages of the families of Lutherans and German Reformed in the Zions Congregation! An exception was the CATCOTT family. "White Creek" can think of no other family of either group who inter-married! James CATCOTT (born 1863) a Lutheran, married Catharine Rausch. Her mother was Elizabeth Regula, who was one of the Regulas born in WALDGREHWEILER, which had only one church - a German Reformed.

--White Creek 00:12, 27 February 2020 (UTC)