This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Headley, Parker, Loveland, Mathis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Blh.2ACEB/340.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Laury, I have a Walter Headley b. 4/May/1860 in Burlington NJ. He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Headley b. 29/Feb/1832 and Deborah (unk) b.18/Jun/1832. Walter was one of nine children. Benjamin was the son of Samuel Benjamin Headley b.16/Mar/1801 and Mary H. Foster b.ca.1807. Benjamin was one of 12 children. Samuel was the son of John Headley and Mary Mathis. The Headley's, Mathis, Parkers, Loveland, are all part of my ex-husbands family but his sisters are helping me put together the history for all of our children. Some families are very funny when it comes to digging in the past. Show some of this info to your father see if he reacts to it in any way. If you are chasing the wrong family with this one he may say so. I have nothing further on the Walter I listed. I can find nothing further on any combination of the names you stated. What was your mothers full name, maiden name as well. Does she know anymore of this or possibly recognize any of the info I have given you? I assume your father is still living, perhaps also your mother. Any aunts and uncles on either side? You would be surprised at what other family members can provide especially when one member (namely your father) wants to be secretive about his family. I have gained info from some of the oddest places, once from a deceased woman my mother wrote to for years. The postman knew where her family was still living and forwarded it to them. Now I can take part of that line back to the early 1500's in Scotland. What I am trying to say is info can come from the most unlikely places you just have to keep asking. If you try the 1930 census for the Cinncinati area then also go back to that same ward, enumeration district etc. to the 1920 census and then the 1910. Make sure you copy all info exactly as you read it including all the heading info on the census. Page #'s are important too. I will keep this info close at hand and see if I shake anything else out of my tree. If you want to get back to me with any other bits of info you can email me direct <mblack1947@comcast.net> One other thing, if your mother is still alive see if she will let you see and/or copy their wedding license/certificate. If it is just a frameable certificate you can go and get a copy of the license itself. Being the daughter it will most likely be available to you for a fee. Try and get the exact date and place it was issued and the record number. The info on the application for the license may give you alot more to go on. Madeline