This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shelley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jAB.2ACI/1814.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the additional information. It was helpful. Years ago I slowly started to piece the Shelley family together. It is difficult because there are so many of them and also several with the same first names. I am a descendent of Simon Peter Shelley, who was a brother to the William Crane Shelley who married your Francis Ione Chilton.