Morning Mary, Thank you so much for sharing. > I was just checking my notes from my trip to Madison, WI. I was able to > see the microfilm of the 1850 Census Index cards while I was there. Here > is who I found, using your list of FAY-D Vol. 00 Number 44 X-message 1: > > 4> Fay, Joseph M. Kenosha Co. Town of Wheatland 1850:260 > Fay, Sophrona Kenosha Co Town of Wheatland 1850: 260 > 26> Fay, Andrew Kenosha Co Town of Wheatland 1850: 260 > 27> Clarissa Fay not listed > 28> Sylvanus Fay not listed > 29> Fay, Lyman J. Kenosha Co. Town of Wheatland 1850: 259 This Lyman J FAY could have been the son of Joseph Mason FAY, or the brother of Joseph Mason FAY (named Lyman J FAY), who according to "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840 Volume 1", removed to Kenosha County, WI with his family. An age would confirm which Lyman FAY it was. > 30> Fay, George Kenosha Co. Town of Wheatland 1850: 260 > 31> Fay, Mary Kenosha Co. Town of Wheatland 1850: 260 > 32> Fay Florilla Kenosha Co. Town of Wheatland 1860: 260? > > I would suggest that someone who has access to the ledger books at the > State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, please go down and > get the actual dates and stuff for this family. Please copy down the > entire line of each entry in the census book and note the item being > covered for each item on the line. > > My guess is that Clarissa Fay and Sylvanus Fay died before 1850 probably > in Cuyahoga County, OH or on the way to Wisconsin. The family was in > Wisconsin in the Town of Wheatland by 1850. It is not clear from the Index > cards whether Lyman Fay was living at home, or in his own home, or boarding > with a neighbor. However, he is listed on the page before the rest of the > family. According to the bio of Lyman FAY, son of Joseph Mason FAY, found online, he was born in 1834 and married in 1858. So he'd have been sixteen at the time of the 1850 census. A look at the census would definitely clear it up though. I don't think it was common for 16 year old to have their own place in those times, at least I've not seen it yet in my viewing of the census records. bear in mind, I'm still an amatuer at this though. Boarding with a neighbor is likely. > Joseph M. Fay would be generation 5 and Andrew would be generation 6 from > John Fay Sr. 1. Jim SHREVE Sr.