Hi Nancy, I'm sorry I don't have anything for you on the RUDDOCK/RUDDICKs, but I wanted to ask you about the TANNER/ROBERT families. Do you have much information on them? My PEARCE/MUNSON families married into the TANNER and ROBERT families. The only location I knew of them was Screven Co., GA and Wilkinson Co., MS before settling in Rapides Parish, LA (Cheneyville area). I was interested in the fact that you mentioned Beaufort District SC, because my PEARCEs were also from there before they went to Screven and Effingham Counties, GA. I would like to find out any information about them when they lived in SC (or anywhere for that matter!). I don't know very much right now. There is a Lodowick TANNER in my notes as a possible father of Joseph TANNER, b. about 1765 in GA. Joseph TANNER m. Elizabeth LANIER, and they had a daughter, Rhoda TANNER, who m. James PEARCE. None of the other names you mentioned rang any bells. Thanks for any information or tips! Marianne Gilbert Phoenix, AZ >Searching for any information on my great-grandmother, Theresa Ruddock or >Ruddick born in England. On the 1850 census of Rapides Parish, we find >Theresa Ruddock (Ruddick), age 18,of England, listed under the household >of William Prince Ford. >William Prince Ford was born in Henry Co., Ky. on January 5, 1803. He was >a son of Jesse Ford and Dulla Barry Prince, and came to Rapides Parish >with his parents about 1816. He married, in 1828, one Martha P. Tanner, >the 11th child of Robert Tanner and Providence Robert, natives of Beaufort >District, SC and early settlers of Rapides Parish. Mrs. Ford died in >Rapides Parish on January 11, 1849, leaving four children. This fact may >directly relate to Theresa being listed under the household in 1850. >However, by the 1850 census, Ford had married Mary B. Dawson, widow of >William H. Cureton. One could assume, that Theresa had been hired to help >with the children, or perhaps there was a connection between Theresa and >the Spring Creek Academy at Hurricane Creek which Ford had been >instrumental in founding. >Theresa married Charles Edward Jouett in 1852 and their first child, Ella >McConnell Jouett was born in 1853. Ella married Walter Lodowick Tanner in >1874. >Theresa, supposedly, had an uncle, Frank Bailey, that lived in the area >but the only Bailey's I have found that she may have had a connection to >was Walter Bailey from Bath, England. >Theresa was born about 1832 and died Feb. 21, 1876. >If anyone has any information about Theresa Ruddock can you please let me >know. Any help will be appreciated >Thanks >Nancy Meaux