This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ovens/Overns/Sheppard/Shepperd/Shepard/Sheperd/Shephard/Shepherd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TS.2ADE/1082 Message Board Post: Hello list. Can anyone tell me if they know of a Catholic home for boys in the Pensacola Fla. area around the turn of the 20th century? My ggrandfather Joseph Patrick Ovens/Overns/Sheppard and his brother Marion were supposedly sent to a home for boys that may or may not have been a Catholic place. The story is that either their legal name was Ovens/Overns and that the Sheppard family took them in from the school, or that their mother or grandmother married a Sheppard after her husband(Ovens/Overns) left or died. They may have had at least three sisters, Mabel, Lillian, and Virgie(which may be short for Virgina and who may have moved to St. Louis). My great grandparents marriage license had Overns but it is insisted that it was actually Ovens. We are at a dead end. Would be very grateful for any help or info. Thanks in advance! Tina Roberts Faulk