This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bates, Chandler, (also looking for Barretts) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iUI.2ACIB/1980.1.1 Message Board Post: Harlow, From a different source, not a gedcom, I have a date of 30 March 1804 for Esther Chandler and Theophilus Bates. I have for years been trying to find the parents of my great grandfather, Theophilus Bates Chandler, who was born in Vermont possibly 1812. (date from cemetery). From various census I had figured maybe 1816 or thereabouts. Ages in census always seem to vary. Census showed him as T.B. Chandler, Bates Chandler, and even Chandler Bates. Dad said he WOULD NOT answer to Theophilus. If it had turned out that his mother for some reason had been named Theophilus, I could understand that he wouldn't like having the same first name as his mother. I always thought he just didn't want to be called "the awfullest" Bates Chandler. Don't suppose you might have info as to any children born to Esther Chandler Bates?