This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROWLAND, ROLAND Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.dearborn/266.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello and thanks. It would appear that Samuel Rowland who married Elizabeth Spickenall in apr 1805 in Frederick Co VA was the son of Gordon Rowland and a brother to Elizabeth, b. about 1795. Frederick Co, Virginia Will Book No. 7, 1802-1804 shows: Rowland (Bowland?), Gordon, Will 20 Dec 1801/1 Feb 1802, Wife: Elizabeth, Children: Sarah, Samuel, Rebecca, Mary, Elizabeth, Lucy, Benjamin, Gabriel, Brother: thomas Rowland. To wife,all estate, personal and real. At her death, all to be sold and monies equally divided among surviving children or their heirs. To son Samuel, one-year-old mare colt, Exrs: wife Elizabeth, son Samuel, brother Thomas. So Gordon's daughter Elizabeth may be the Amelia Roland who married Leonard Spicknall in Frederick Co VA? (I have seen the Otoe County NE article re: Leonard T Spicknall.) Then this Elizabeth (or Amelia) may also be the sister of Samuel Roland who is listed in the 1810 and 1820 Frederick Co VA census? There is no Samuel (that I can see) in Frederick Co VA in 1830. Perhaps he died or migrated west with the Rowlands and the Spicknalls. Would really like to know the names of Samuel's children to determine if he had a son named John. I have not yet located a date/place of death for Samuel or a record of his will. Are you a descendent of this Elizabeth Rowland, b. about 1795 in VA? Thank you. Dianne