This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradshaw Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HWF.2ACEB/1234.3 Message Board Post: Several "distant" cousins are researching our Bradshaw line. We are trying to find the link between us and your line. There are many similarities in names. We also have a connection to Burke Co N.C., as your line does. I have put together 11 pages in MS Word of your line, looking for a connection - info I have gathered from several years on the Internet. After leaving North Carolina our branch traveled to Texas, then Arkansas and Oklahoma and finally to Washington State. Our oldest known Bradshaws are William Seth Bradshaw (1819-04/10/60) who married on 04/01/1841 Lavina Mercilla Chastain (04/29/c1829-c1898). We have Lavina's ancestry back to the original Chastains in Virginia (PierreChastain Sr.). The Bradshaws and Chastains were very close families as they endured severe hardships in 1700 Virginia. Does anyone know of any connection? I will gladly send my two Bradshaw "lines" I have put together. We are fairly positive our two branches are connected, but haven't been able ! to do so yet. Send any email to Jim Heppell, Wenatchee, Washington starjim@charter.net