This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gh.2ADI/3875.1 Message Board Post: They didn't start listing the names of wives and children in the census until 1850, so she will not show up in 1830 as a child. You would have to know her father's name, as he will be the only name listed. Before 1850, only the head of the house was listed and the rest of the family was marked only by the number of males and females in the household.