Researching the family of William and Frances O'DANIEL of Stafford County, Virginia, also known as the O'Daniels of Fairfax County, Virginia. Their surname evolved to Daniel, Daniell, and Daniels. The last known use of O'Daniel in these lines was in 1807 in Kershaw County, South Carolina. William O'DANIEL, b. ca 1691, d. ca 1728, said to be "probably a recent immigrant" by Fairfax Harrison in Tyler's Quarterly, married Frances, and had two Northern Neck Land Grants, 1717 and 1724, on Accotink Creek, in that part of Stafford County that became Fairfax County in 1742. Their children: John, b. 1718, died in Fairfax, VA in 1799; William (II), b. ca 1720, migrated to Craven Co., SC in 1754, died in Kershaw Co., SC in 1796; James, b. 1721, migrated to Craven Co., SC in 1754, then moved to Hancock Co., GA circa 1790 where he died in 1798; Elizabeth (William SCUTT) ca 1723 - bef 1755, died Fairfax, VA?; Catherine (Henry GUNNELL) ca 1725- aft 1792, died Fairfax, VA; Ann ( Unknown JONES) ca 1727 - aft 1758, known only by her being named in the 1755 LW&T of her mother, Frances O'Daniel GLADIN. This was the last generation that used the O'. Between 1740 and 1800, John's and William's families became DANIEL; James' family became DANIELL. DANIELS appeared in some lines after 1850. Among others, O'DANIEL granddaughters married into the HALBERT, TALBOTT, HURST, MITCHELL, JORDAN, ERWIN, TAYLOR, HENDRICK, AUSTON, MAY, and NELSON families. A few of the "brick walls": The JONES family of Ann O'DANIEL, daughter of William and Frances; The SCUTT family of Elizabeth O'DANIEL; James O'DANIEL, son of John, Jr. and grandson of John O'DANIEL, who received from his grandfather 200 acres of land in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1798; Mary O'Daniel BRAKLEY, daughter of John, Jr. and granddaughter of John O'Daniel, who received from her grandfather 200 acres of land in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1798; The MAY family of Frances O'DANIEL, daughter of John and granddaughter of William and Frances; The name of the first wife of James DANIELL; The name of the wife of William O'DANIEL (II). Robert Louis Daniell http://roloda.googlepages.com/home