Have you checked the marriages for these people? They could be aunts or uncles, or just friends and neighbors. People were much more likely to take an unrelated child into their home when trouble struck in those days, than they are today. Keith has a lot of information on the Gregory family and we can put you in touch with a lady in Burlington who has researched them extensively. Either one of them may have some answers for you. Connie Keith/Connie Street ckcasey@netins.net 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 319-523-8164 >Thanks, Bev, for posting this census info on Hiram Gregory. I appreciate it >very much! It gives me an opportunity to ask if anyone on the list knows of a >connection between the Bedwell family and the Gregory family. Delilah Bedwell >age 7 was living in Hiram Gregory's home in the 1850 census. Why? > >Delilah was the daughter of John Bedwell who died in Louisa Co. in 1845 and >Eliza Jane Harnett. Eliza Jane had married again in 1846 to Mark Knight, had >two more children, and was widowed again by 1849. She was living in the home of >William Blake along with her two children by Knight in the 1850 census, but her >children by John Bedwell are living in three different homes - Lavina age 9 in >her grandmother Rachel Bedwell's home, Delilah age 7 in Hiram Gregory's home and >Rachel age 5 in George and Nancy (Blake) Smith's home. > >Anyone know of a connection between the Bedwells and the Blakes and the >Gregorys? > >Mari Nielsen > >Jessie & Beverly Todd wrote: > >> #4\4 GREGORY, Hiram* age 23, farmer, b IN, Wapello Twp; Martha >> (nee Martha Susan DICKSON) age 17, b KY; >> James M.* age 5, b IA; David* age 29, farmer, >> b IN; >> Samantha* age 23, b IN; Dennis age 7, b IN; >> (also >> in same house) BAYNE, Lydda age 40, b VA; >> Eliza >> age 16, b KY; BEDWELL, Delila * age 7, b (?). > > >