At 09:24 AM 3/14/99 EST, you wrote: >This is the same William that had me going in Circles for a year.My Dads >cousin gave me list up to this William then everthing went Goofy. My list >shows William was married to Agnus Cowan not a Nancy, I have a copy of this >Will also, remember it's a legal document I don't believe its a place for nick >names.Further more my list shows that Willaims farther was a man named David, >also I found out that in Yorthere was two Williams at the same time, they >called one of them the other William but if you read part of that book by >David Faris, The Faris Family of Wahington county you'll see that one of these >Williams was not a Faris I belive it was Farrie or something like that. I do >more seachering to see if I found out more. > >Pete > > >==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== >Your Support Keeps RootsWeb Free! >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > Faris Searchers There are 3 Wills in my possession where the husband states his wife is NANCY, yet her real name is Agnes. VERY common, just as POLLY is used for MARY. One sees that in the naming of both wives and daughters in a will - the "common" name will be stated by the Testator. Marlene Marlene DiGiovanni MarleneDiGi@prodigy.net