This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ryans or Ryons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EUC.2ACI/3200.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for taking the time to answer Harry. Makes me wonder how back in the 1830-1840s a carpenter would meet and marry a woman, born (in 1817) in a town a 100 miles away??? Her family must have made the trek but unfortunately I don't know their names yet. Elaine