This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cain, Skemp, Price, Bennett, Rode, Rhode, Williams, Pauly, Pauli, Klinkhammer, Agard, Odell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/1135.1145.1147.1151.2 Message Board Post: Ny CAIN line is from Col. Paul CAIN and wife Ann Marie PRICE. Their daughter Laura Catherine CAIN is my gg grandmother. She married Charles Widlake SKEMP in Dubuque. I have not done the hard research on the CAIN line, a cousin Marilyn gave me research data and had help from a friend who has postted on the boards here. Re your question about all the CAINs in Dubuque ... from what I'm seeing, I think it entirely possible the CAINs in Dubuque are related. Paul CAIN was born NY as far as we know, with a father John. The family was in the mid-west, so the other CAINs found in various mid-western states may well be cousins, brothers, etc. of the original immigrants that came to NY. I was born Audrey Harriet Williams 1943 in Dubuque but did not grow up there, however my mother has often told me she recalls a CAIN field, like a ball field, that was in Dubuque in the 1940s. However my cousins still there have no memory of a Cain Field. Also ..other family lore from my father while on a trip in London with us in 1980, said his grandmother was from Salisbury, England ...a place we visited while there. I think hemight have meant his great grandmother...but which one, I don't know. My dad's mother was Ivy Laura SKEMP, b about 1885 Dubuque Iowa ...a daughter of Charles Widlake SKEMP and Laura Catherine CAIN ...who were my father's grandparents, and his great grandparents would have been Paul CAIN and Ann Marie PRICE on that line. However on his SKEMP line, definitely from England, my dad's grandfather Charles Widlake SKEMP was born 1848 County Dorset, England (info I was given and also found online) ......Charles Widlake SKEMP was a son of John SKEMP b about 1815 England and Harriet BENNETT born about 1814 England. The SKEMP family were masons / bricklayers in Dubuque. So my father could well have meant his great grandmother Harriet BENNETT was from Salisbury. She died 1898 in Dubuque, so my dad, born 1914 in Dubuque, would not have known her ...but would likely have heard stories from his grandfather Charles ...who died 1942 in Duqubue ..1 year before my birth. Any info on these lines will be appreciated ..and I'm happy to share whatever I have. Thanks ...