Ricky Branch on WorldConnect (Rootsweb) at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1681119&id=I75989071 indicates that her father was Daniel Branch of Chesterfield Co VA. I have no way of knowing if this is accurate or not. Charlie >Does anyone know who the parents of Valencia Branch m. William Bowles? >Ursilla Rebecca Branch (one of my grandmothers) m. my 4th great grandfather, >William A. Trent, about 1709. The Braunche family goes back to the fourteenth >century in Berkshire, England if my memory serves me correctly. > >Anne in VA