I have now determined some things about my Wiyot ancestress, although not what her maiden name was nor the surname of the man who impregnated her. Susan (?) Gorham, born 1840 Mary (Gorham) Silva, born 1865 Emma (Silva) Nelson, born 1893 Esther (Nelson) Shannon/Welch, born 1912 Susan was Wiyot. I've heard her nickname was "Lucky". Besides the identities of Mary (Gorham) Silva's parents, I'm looking for information on the first three husbands: Suzy's husband George Gorham (who was not the father of her baby--he was given a ranch by a prominent family to marry Suzy, because one of their sons had impregnated Suzy and they didn't want the "scandal", apparently and/or didn't want a Wiyot in the family) was born in Massachusetts in 1819, but I haven't been able to find out anything more about him. Mary's husband John Emmanuel Silva was, I assume, Portuguese, but I'd like to know where he came from (Portugal or the Azores or...), when he was born, and whether he was full-blooded Portuguese. Emma's husband Jeremiah Bliss Nelson was a seaman, born 1865, who at some point abandoned his family (or was lost at sea?). All I know about him is his name and birth year. Where was he originally from? Was he a whaler from Nantucket, or...? I know all about Esther Silva (Nelson) Shannon/Welch and her husband Theodore Roosevelt Shannon, as they were my grandparents. Clay Shannon, author of the novel "the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle" Now available on amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/ysran