Melanie of Greenville: By location and antecedents given, you're of Newberry Davenport descent. I am putting this reply on the DAVENPORT-L Rootsweb because there are a number of Newberries thereon who can help you trace your roots. I appreciate knowing that you have a brother named John Scott Davenport, for I will no longer consider myself unique in that regard. Although I really haven't thought too much about it--I started using the Scott back in 1948 when I was on the faculty of Indiana University and got called on the carpet by the University President because I had allegedly hit a policeman in Indianapolis while being drunk and disorderly. A case of mistaken identify which I easily established. The culprit had been a John A. Davenport of Fort Wayne, an ex-GI who was an IU graduate student. Thereafter, I was no longer John Davenport, was and have been since John Scott Davenport. I do have Scott ancestry (a great-grandmother was a Scott from Delaware), but I was named, according to my late Mother, for a best friend of my father, who was Chief of Police of Decatur, Illinois, when I was born, and had an assistant chief named Scott Guiliford. Great things are happening in Newberry Davenport research. A missing link is being worked on--which, if and when made, will connect the Newberry Davenports back to 1066 or thereabouts, and include a number of English nobles in the descent. Thank you for your kind comments. John Scott Davenport, Ph.D. Holmdel, NJ