| Hey from a Pennsylvania Bartges who relocated to the mountains of Western North Carolina. My late grandfather Raymond Bartges, of Martinsburg, near Altoona, did a family genealogy a few decades ago and learned we were French Huganauts who arrived in Canada in the 1600’s. ‘Bartges’ is derived from the French word for “shepherd.”
We trickled down into the states and even established a Bartgesville in Kentucky. I just did a search and found a Bartlesville, KY, which might be what the name evolved in to there. Christopher Bartges was a contemporary of Ben Franklin and attempted to start up a rival publication in Baltimore. Nathanial Bartges and his wife were killed in an Indian raid in Pennsylvania in the 1700s.
The family is full of doctors, attorneys, teachers, college professors, teachers, veterinarians, authors, musicians, engineers, artists – an eclectic and interesting motley crew of personalities and talents.
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