This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gAB.2ACI/1932.1.1 Message Board Post: My Basil did have brothers, but my Basil was born 1831. His father was Thomas Thomas and Thomas Thomas had a brother named Basil Boswell Thomas born 1777 Maryland. Basil Boswell also had a brother Samuel Thomas, he was the youngest of 14 children. He was born 1805. Does any of this help?