This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bray Miller Brady Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/5gF.2ACIB/1123.1 Message Board Post: > Hello Pam, my name is Troy Brady. I hope all is well and I also hope that > you are a long lost part of the family that I have been searching for - > > Here is our story: > > William R. Bray, born abt. 1855 and died about 1929. William and my great > great grand mother, Sarah Medora Miller, who were next door neighbors, had > an affair when she was 14 and he 19. Their efforts bore my great > grandfather, Joseph Brady and/or Donaldson. William and Sarah never > married. However, when Joseph was 2, she married Jeremiah Donaldson and for > some reason on Joseph's birth certificate, she crossed out his last name of > Bray and wrote in Brady - thereby creating the beginning of our Brady > lineage! > > From what I have been able to learn, William's mother was Margaret who was > born about 1829. She must have remarried a Wesley Wilkins as William is > listed as his step-son in the census records. > > At some point, William married Anna J. Wilson on June 17, 1889, in Pickaway > County, OH. Anna was born abt 1865 and died in 1933. They had three > children: Beebee, Ovan M., and Mary Annie. > > I look forward to hearing from you.