This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DSanfilippo60 Surnames: Evans, Stark, Arden, Ball, Clement, etal Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.evans/9819.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't think that anyone has put this to rest yet, and I am not sure it will ever be solved with documentation - except if we can find this family in parish records in Wales - not very likely but possible. Here are the only notes I have and my query was to gain information and open debate on this line since I have not seen anything 'new' in a long time. Can you fill in the blanks for me on David's family? My own line ends with Anna Evans, daughter of Lt. William B. Evans (do you suppose the B. is for 'Ball'?) just a guess since I don't think that he signed using his middle name anywhere I can find... Diane David Evans, was in Maryland in the late 1600's, he had three children born there (Collection St. Barnabus Church Collection Dates 1686-1777) Description St. Barnabus Church, Queen Anne Parish, Protestant Episcopal, Prince George's County, Leeland: vestry minutes and account 1705-1773; parish register 1686-1777. See microfilm for transcripts prepared by the Maryland Historical Society. Film Number M 607, M 1010 Medium Original, microfilm Restrictions No restrictions Location 00/08/06/09 Southern Lineages Record of Thirteen Families by A. Evans Wynn The first definite knowledge of David Evans of the line we trace, is found in Prince George County, Maryland, where the Queen Anne Parish Register records the following: "Eleanor Evans, daughter of David Evans and Anne, his wife, was born October 5, 1714, John Evans, son of David Evans and Anne, his wife, was born August 21, 1717. Arden Evans, son of David Evans and Anne, his ,wife was born March 15, 1721/2." The unusual fore-name "Arden" has been the means of distinguishing this line from others, in a list innumerable "Early Settlers" of the surname Evans, in Maryland and Virginia. The tradition, preserved in the family, that the first ancestor in this country married an Arden, would fix that surname on Anne, wife of David Evans, Examination of the records of an early family of Ardens, in Maryland, 1690 (2), revealed nothing of her origin. Unless she was the daughter of one James Arden of the "Potomac Freshes," mentioned obscurely in an Early Virginia Patent, or, unless settlers of Lower Norfolk County, among whom were Ardens, moved with Richard Bennett to Maryland, Anne Arden, of David Evans, must have been born in the "Mother Country." (2) John Arden, Virginia, "Bristol and America." (Vol. 2,. p. 136). Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.