ELIZABETH RUSSO wrote: > Checking in from Simsbury, CT, 9th generation descendant of JOHN DUBOIS > who paid quit rents in Carolina by 1696. I find this to be very interesting. Many years ago when my grandfather Charles Sidney DuBose was alive, he used to tell us that we once had an "i" in our name. I have one cousin whose father told her that our family came to Texas by way of Louisiana (living there a short while). The current tree that I am researching that another cousin had researched professionally is Isaac DUBOSC - Susannah COUILLANDEAU Stephen - Lydia John DUBOSE - Lydia CARTER Jeremiah DUBOSE - Rebecca HAMPTON John DUBOSE (1st wife Jane Rabb) - Amanda Kate SMITH (my gr grandmother) Charles Sidney DUBOSE - Margaret (Maggie) Cole MORGAN Jack Charles DUBOSE - Bobbie Oletha COOK Me - Betty Dawn DUBOSE HAMILTON and siblings Terry J. DUBOSE Jackie DUBOSE CARY We have wills and census records of John and Amanda in Texas, Amanda's father's will mentioning son-in-law John DuBOSE, and Jeremiah, naming son John. There are so many Johns in the DuBOSC, DuBOSE, DuBOISE, etc. lines that I wonder . . . The line that we have been researching and seems to be pretty will documented arrived from France and then moved and lived -> SC, FL, AL, to TX. I don't have a Louisiana stop anywhere, nor do I see an "i" in our surname anywhere. I keep wondering, however, why my grandfather's generation mentioned both? Betty Betty Dawn Hamilton, LRS * mailto:bhamilt@worldnet.att.net Historian, Terry County Historical Commission