This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAH.2ACIB/195.1 Message Board Post: Correction...my father was not an officer but an able seaman.. which is 1 rank below petty officer.. my grandfathers name was Edward (Ted) Burney.. the name 'Ted' was just a nickname. and my grandfather's second wifes name was Mae Fletcher.. I know nothing of my grandfathers first wife, except that my father was the offspring of my grandfather and his first wife.