This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Horton Peebles Truesdale Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBk.2ACIB/2402 Message Board Post: While searching for source information on the Truesdale family that migrated to Kershaw Co SC from Ireland in 1772, I came across an interesting tidbit of Horton information. The following information - Horton, John January 12, 1678/9 Horton, Robert June 20, 1678 [Mate to William Shackerly] Is in a list of "Burials at the Parish of St. Michaels, Barbados Island, 1678 and 1679" that can be found at http://english-america.com/places/bi167001.html#Barbados. What intrigues me is, in corresponding with other researchers of the Horton/Peebles/Truesdale/Williams lines of Kershaw, I see a persistent reference to the early progenitors of these families (except for the Horton line) as having been Royalist soldiers in England during the English Civil War, and according to these legend/rumors, these same persons fled England to avoid execution by the supporters of Cromwell. One researcher has identified one of his ancestors (who is somehow thought to be allied with both the Williams and Peebles soldiers) as having fled to Barbados and, for a period of time, was the governor of Barbados. Although I don't recall this being proven, this person feels very strongly that the Williams family in particular was with this group in Barbados prior to locating in SC. I'm sorry for the flakiness of the information, but I am going to have to search through my notes to try to remember the details. Anyway, here we have two Hortons who died and were buried in Barbados in 1679, roughly 30 years later. I've done the briefest of searches on Rootsweb for Hortons who died in Barbados and found nothing. Anyone care to speculate?