Hi Tracy: I checked the Beatty/Beattie and Gilbert names but couldn't find a reference for either, using the first names of Mary Anne or Hezekiah, in Simcoe (to 1881). Maybe you will have more success with the Dufferin County indexes. Good luck with your search. Regards, Lynne. > Thanks for your response and the information. I'm trying to find information> on a possible guardianship record for my grandfather, who was born (out of> wedlock) to Mary Anne McLean Beatty and Hezekiah Gilbert, probably in 1880,> at Stanton. He was shown on the 1881 census for Mulmur as Tracy Gilbert, 1> year old, living with his great uncle Thomas Walker. He appears in later> census records as Tracy Lawrence Walker and lists Thomas Walker and wife> Margaret as his parents. _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us