This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RADCLIFF, SIPES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ti.2ADI/515.1034.1074.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, but I don't have anything to help you. "My" Nicholas Smith RADCLIFF was born in 1845. His father was Richard RADCLIFF, b 1815, KY; and his mother was Eliz. SIPES, b 1815, IN. That is my question, "Why was Nicholas given the middle name of Smith when I can't trace it to any surnames?".