This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Kent_McMahan Surnames: Adams, Cooksey Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.adams/13887.5.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Your post today, when combined with your prior post on 2/25/09 and my reply today with the marriage bond transcription, tell me why most have Jesse's parents as Edmund Adams and Elizabeth Cooksey. The lingering question for me now boils down to what is the given name of Elizabeth Cooksey's husband - was it really Edmund or Edward? Edward must be the eldest son named in Isaac Adams' will of 4 Jul 1774 Brunswick Co., VA, while Edmund is named next to last and is probably the next to youngest son. I see that the LDS Family History Library has microfilms available for the key records: the Brunswick Co. order book with the guardianship record and the Greensville Co. marriage bonds. They also have films of the Brunwick Co. will books. Have you, or anyone that you know, seen the key original records and verified that the given name in both the guardianship record and the marriage bond is EDMUND? As far as my own personal quest, Jesse is almost certainly the son of either Edmund Adams or Edward Adams, both sons of Isaac Adams of Brunswick Co., VA. The given names in your Adams family are not shared with the given names of the siblings and early male descendants of my wife's ancestor, Collin Adams. Therefore, I doubt that these two Adams families are related. Thanks so much for your help in resolving my issue. For the record, below are links to my RootsWeb World Connect database pages for "my" Collin Adams and your Jesse Adams............Kent http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kmcmahan&id=I7693 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kmcmahan&id=I23166 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.