This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FORBES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEX.2ACIB/817 Message Board Post: Hi! I am looking for information on an Alexander Forbes who would be between the age of 40 and 50, in the 1840 census. The Alexander Forbes I am looking for lived in Howell Township, NJ according to the 1840 census. He may have worked for or lived in the area of the Howell Works (now Allaire State Park) in Monmouth County, NJ. He is on the 1840 census, however he is not on the 1850 census. The furnance blew out so that may be the cause of the move. I don't know where he was born or who he was married to. The census data gives the following information: 1 male between 0 and 5, 2 males between 5 and 10, and one adult male between 40 and 50. 1 female between 0 and 5, 2 females between 10 and 15 and one adult female between 30 and 40. Any help would be very much welcome. I am trying to place Alexander Forbes in Howell Works in the 1830s. Would like to know the names of his wife and children, where everyone was born, died - cemetery info, work Alexander did. And where he and his family moved to. Thank you, please feel free to email me directly.