Folks, In searching this side of the "pond" in the USA I have just come across new information that someone in Carmarthenshire may be able and willing to help me prove with evidence or simply put it to rest as false or just wishful thinking. Some of you know that the National Library of Wales found the baptism of John Lewis son of William on 15 February 1772. His birth taken from his stone in the USA says birth was 13 February 1771. John and Sarah are my maternal fourth great grandparents. I have just located our 1850 census taken for Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut which names my John Jr. as William Lieus (the spelling may have been an error on the part of the enumerator of the census). At that time William with a wife named Cynthia and two daughters aged 6 and 4 years enters that he was born in Carmarthenshire as well and that his parents are John and Sarah Lewis. His birth year would be 1813 give or take a year for the actual birth date because our census only asks the age at the last birthday and it doesn't seem to really matter if he or she was 37 and born in August and the census was taken in July he or she would still be 37. The only difference is if there was an infant born during the year then you would enter the months back from the date that the census was taken so if the census was taken in July and the infant was born in March you would enter 4/12. I am now looking for the marriage of John Lewis to Sarah (nee ?) she was born about 1779 again give or take a year as she was 64 and 3 months at her death in 1843. Since John Lewis was born in Carmarthenshire and his son was also born there I am going to assume that it is possible that John and Sarah were married there as well. The first enumeration of the stones in 1932 gave the birth as 13 February 1771 at Llandeilo, Abbercywyn, Carmarthen, South Wales. I recently found someone in that local area to walk the cemetery for me as I live over 3,000 miles away in the Pacific Northwest. In February I read the Inscriptions from a book taken at a later time in Christ's Church cemetery. This book reports that there is a completely different location for the birth of John which I am entering but have not proved to be correct. That entry that says it was from the inscription of the stone says, La Parish Landille adda Ganon, Garmathern, South Wales and again date of birth is 13 February 1771 with a date of death as 5 October 1846. The person who walked the cemetery for me said that the stones are very hard to read therefore I expect the possibility of some spelling errors. Such as entering a "G" instead of a "C". Maybe more. What this says to me or at least it is my estimation that John and Sarah Lewis brought a son John Jr. born 1813 to America where he married Cynthia of Virginia before July 1844 the birth of their first daughter. As I mentioned previously John Jr. is sometimes seen as William with the same birth date. He died about 1851 or at least after the census was taken in 1850. By 1860 his wife is the head of the house with two children the second was born in NYC. The second child died at the age of 7. Cynthia says that she is a widow and is seen as such in 1870, and 1880. She died in 1889. I would appreciate very kindly if someone over there could verify these findings for me with church records etc. I am told that the Christ's Church at Rye that had run the cemetery is closed and nobody seems to know where the records went to or are kept. Be that as it may I don't now expect to find a marriage of the older couple John and Sarah from what I now know. Daniel David Lewis Frommherz www.mckenzievalleymarket.com Paternal grandson of Adolph Joseph and Lucy Adelia (King) Frommherz Sr. of Benton County, Oregon Maternal grandson of Myron Horton and Winifred Marie (Smith) Lounsbury of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York President and CEO of OUT NOW INC. (_E=MC2_)