I am going thru my old emails and found this - I have a question, I hope someone can answer - This is one of my direct lines - not Edward, but thru his brother Peter. I have Edward marrying Lydia ROCKWOOD who was my 8th gr grand aunt - I notice that you have him married to LYDIA PENMAN ROCKWOOD - was PENMAN a middle name for her - or what? She was the d/o RICHARD ROCKETT / ROCKWOOD and his 1/wf who is not known to me - Richard ROCKETT / ROCKWOOD married 2nd AGNES LOVELL the widow of Zachary BICKNELL - Thank you Wilma Fleming Haynes wilmahaynes@direcway.com -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of chgeagle@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:10 PM To: ADAMS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ADAMS-L] Re: Ensign Edward ADAMS of Medfield, Massachusetts [Abt. 1629-1716] This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/8789.1 Message Board Post:P He was a son of Henry Adams of Barton, St. David, Somerset, England progenator of President John Adams. They came on ships and many were Capt, Ensign, Lt. on ships trading from Massachusetts. He married Lydia Penman Rockwood, as death was frequent there, he also married Abigail Craft and Sarah Taylor. He also was born in Barton, St. David, Somerset, England which is in Cornish speaking area of the oldest settled area of England near Bristol. There were Tin and Pottery making industries there and still are. Ap means son of in Cornish as well as Welsh. Barton meant Manor House, St. David was a Welsh Saint. ==== ADAMS Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE in MAIL mode use: Adams-l-request@rootsweb.com To UNSUBSCRIBE in DIGEST mode use: Adams-D-request@rootsweb.com List-Manager's Address: Adams-admin@rootsweb.com Archives: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/a/d/ADAMS For Virus help: http://www.wvi.com/~wb/virushelp.html