This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5R.2ADE/111.25.1 Message Board Post: I read with interest your story as this has been passed down thru my family my great grandmother was panilla or tura thomas and my daughter in law is direct descendant of line . I heard the story from the granddaughter. we have researched but can't find anything before maybe 1850's. My grandmother Mary Lloyd Cardwell Holman told us that Thomas' brothers Jim and John came up from Florida after parents "died on the boat". Would appreciate any info that I can get