This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McSwain/Kittrell,Birt/Burrit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VW.2ADE/1040 Message Board Post: Merced Cty history 1881, pg 130, noted marriage "on Sunday, the twenty-first instant, Wm. McSwain to Mrs. Martha E. Birt, all of this county." Mrs. Birt had two children, Robert Birt, b. 1858 and Sarah Birt b. 1860. All appear at Snelling in 1870 census. Name also variously reported as Burrit, Burrilt. Will appreciate a look-up for marriage of Martha Ellen Kittrell and Birt, birth of Robt. and Sarah, and marriage year of Martha Ellen to Wm McSwain.