I stumbled on something recently I want to share regarding the possible origin of the name "Otho". If you copy and paste this link into your address bar it takes you to a page about Sir George Ent.

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/8/7172.htm

This article is from the Royal College of Physicians -
"ENT, Sir George (1604-1689)" -

It indicates that Sir George Ent (b.6Nov1604 Sandwich,Kent, England) was the son of Josiah Ent (a Belgian merchant fleeing religous persecution in the Netherlands, who settled in England.) Sir George became a doctor of much reknown in England.

Here is the interesting part. Sir George married Sarah Meverall, daughter of Othowell Meverall (a physician). "Otho" is an unusual name and would be an obvious abbreviation of "Othowell". Perhaps the name "Otho" came down through the Johan Theobold Ent line because he was a descendent Sir George.

I was researching the name Peter Ent and came across Sir George. He may have had a brother named Peter. I know he had a son named Peter. The book "An English consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667-1678 By Sonia P. Anderson" cites a Peter Ent, son of Sir George Ent, being bound out as an apprentice in 1668, but he was not sent to Smyrna until four years later.

Sir George also had a daughter named Judith who is buried in a church in London (per Catalogue of the tombs in the churches of the city of London A.D. 1666)

I am a descendent of Peter Ent (b.1787 in NJ or NY -d.1862 or 1863 Andrew County MO). He lived in PA, and Knox County OH, and Andrew County, MO(in 1847). He married Elizabeth Jane Davis (b.1791 in VA d.9Nov1863 in Andrew County, MO)
I am not yet sure how he fits into the known Ent lines.

Linda