Greetings Noreen, Please tell me more about your Henry Akers b.1801. By any chance do you show a son Floyd b. 1826? Our Akers info ends at Floyd b. 1826. I suspect but cannot validate a link to a Henry b.1795. There is a lot of Akers data out there but none I have been able to tie to this line. Thanks, - Pete B & N Bryant wrote: > This exchange of messages reminded me of the book "Bess of Hardwick," by > David N. Durant. It is a portrait, based on facts from much research, of an > Elizabethan Dynasty and very interesting. Bess, who became a friend of > Queen Elizabeth I, built many mansions in different parts of England. > Thomas ACCRES was her favorite master mason, also a favorite of her fourth > husband, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (George Talbot). Thomas ACCRES died in > 1607 on a farm he had on Bess's lands in Derbyshire. > > I am wondering if anyone has found Thomas to be an ancestor and willing to > share with others? I am nowhere near that far back in my 30 plus years of > research for ancestry of Henry AKERS, b 1801 KY. > > I copied the info from the book where Thomas is mentioned as well as a > little outline of Bess Hardwick and would be happy to share it. > > Noreen > (Noreen Pearson Bryant) > > ==== AKERS Mailing List ==== > > ============================== > Search over 600 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp