This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FORDHAM, TARPLEY, RYLE, GARDNER, TINDALL, FORT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/He.2ADE/1001.1.1 Message Board Post: No, that is Francis N, his father. There has to be a Francis M in another household somewhere. 1880 he is a widow living w John E Lord family. He remarried to a Sarah Tarpley right after this and had 4 children; one was my husband's grandfather. Emma Lou