This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burch, Thomas, Hollendsworth, Hollingsworth, Fisher Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3gG.2ACEB/259.287.1.1 Message Board Post: Hey there. I can’t say whether or not our Joseph Burch Jr. is the one that died in Telifair Co. (although he did die in 1818), but I do have a possible correction for you: According to Wm. Bernette Burch’s “The Burch Family,” (available online in the notes at http://homepage.mac.com/familyhistory/families/myers/names/maryburch.html ), both Joseph Burch Jr. and Elizabeth Thomas were the child of Mary Hollendsworth. While there certainly could have been two women by that name, I find the alternative presented by the IGI to be more likely: the mother of Joseph Burch Jr. was Mary Ann Fisher (see International Genealogical Index, batch #7003301, source #0538288, sheet #47; also batch # M505491, source #0023339, 0845161; 975.791 C1 V26S). I personally haven’t had the chance to do any first-generation research on this family, but it kind of sits right with me that W. B. Burch was mistaken on this one. So how do you know Joe Jr?