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/4AB.2ACI/320.1.1 Message Board Post: Adele, thanks for the reply. Your info on the Ransdells fits with what I have since learned. I lucked out and found a very knowledgeable Ransdell researcher who has my Matilda Ransdell as the likely daughter of John and Elizabeth (Chinn) Ransdell. Her father died before her marriage to John Elston, so no positive will reference to her husband’s surname. My source believes Matilda was born in Fayette Co., KY, before her family moved to Henry Co., where she was married. My source descends from her older brother Wharton Ransdell, b. ABT 1777 in Fauquier Co., VA. Regarding your question, I have the children of Edward Hayden and Elizabeth (Nancy?) Elston as being: Nancy Hayden b. ABT 1838 James Hayden b. ABT 1839 Elizabeth Hayden b. ABT 1841 John Hayden b. ABT 1844 Laurinda Hayden b. ABT 1846 Lewis Hayden or Levi Hayden b. ABT 1847, probably d. BEF 1860 Sarah Catherine Hayden b. ABT 1849 Mary Hayden b. 22 Mar 1852 Mill Creek, KY The above came from "The Elston Family in America" by James Strode Elston, 1942. The book, while noting a possibly mistaken reference to Edward’s wife as Nancy, does not carry these Hayden children further, so I can’t provide more. The reason I have the page copied from the book with these children is that their mother, Elizabeth Elston, was the sister of my ancestor Willett Elston, son of John Elston and Matilda Ransdell. I normally don’t search for or document children of siblings of ancestors. I hope the above will be of some help. Kent