Re: Foust/Faust Family Name

By genealogy.com user February 05, 2002 at 08:57:14

i think the first name change to foust was when jacob foustjr 1757-1841 moved to ohio. his father was jacobfaust(A)1729-1794. jacob jr. had a son named jacob too.(1787-1864). supposedly the reason was to keep thepronuciation more like the german original.

No replies.