This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1hH.2ACEB/3519.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Agnes, I have not heard that story about a Lady Griffith. All I know is that my GGF Francis Carroll was placed on a commercial boat in Liverpool at age 7 years old in the late 1850's. I assume his father died. The story is that his sister Mary was the one who asked the ships captain to take care of him or "sold him?". I think of the story 'Oliver' when I say sold him. Mike