This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VYG.2ACIB/1604.1.1.1.3.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Diane, my last attempted response disappeared from the screen, so my apologies if it shows up incomplete. You and others are reporting useful information on the John or Jonathan Buck families using C or Cornelius as the middle name. Perhaps, even more Buck researchers will be reading these messages or find them later that have additional information on possible ancestral links for Morgan and Martin. I have been in contact with some long time researchers of the Jonathan Buck & Zuriah Covalt line and no one reports ever having seen reference to the name Cornelius in this line. If proven descendants of this line have, perhaps they will be willing to weigh in. The fact that the name Cornelius is so long in showing up does not necessarily rule out that the Jonathan who married Elizabeth Barnett was a Jonathan Cornelius Buck. But, as of today, it seems no one has proof to rule either in or out the connection of your Jonathan Cornelius Buck to the Jonathan Buck & Zuriah Covalt through his son Jonathan. I personally find interesting that this new thread of messages introduces a new name Cornelius not earlier referenced. To explain my interest and connection, my own line is from the Bucks of Wethersfield, CT and I have been trying to extend the lines of the several early Buck families who early were in New England. There were so many similar names used in some of these families that it is sometimes quite difficult to prove which families go together. Cornelius is a German sounding name and there were Buck families of German origin in PA so I suppose it is possible there could have been more than one Jonathan Buck line that went from PA to NC and TN and AR as your families did. I am puzzled by the fact also that some people talk interchanbably of John Cornelius Buck and Jonathan Cornelius Buck. While John and Jonathan are similar, these names were both used in the same families quite frequently in New England. Hopefully more descendants of this line will turn up that can rule in or out some of the present theories. Has any one checked land records or wills that might shed some light on the ancestry of those who went first to NC? I could have missed references, but I don't believe anyone has mentioned legal documents that have surfaced.