This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0EB.2ACE/409.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I checked the image of the 1880 census page with Charles Darby and it appears to agree with the LDS transcription. I am guessing you did not grow up in MA, because apparently you did not check the spelling Derby. The Massachusetts mouth is a peculiar organ, and one must make allowances for the way we Massachusetts people speak. A Charles Derby of the appropriate age appears in the 1860 and 1870 census in Provincetown. He is listed as a teamster in 1860 when he is with wife Elizabeth and retired mariner in the 1870 census when he is head of a household which includes the family of Gilbert and Mary E. Spencer. No relationship is given--they may simply be boarders or of course could be relatives. I don't have an index for 1850 and don't have time just now to go through page by page, but perhaps someone with an index could find him in 1850. A Charles Derby of Provincetown is listed in the death records for 1883 346:15. If Provincetown doesn't have this, and they should, it is at the MA Archives and if you can wait a while they will send a certificate for $3. Images of the books are on film--I'm not sure if the LDS films go this far and I'm running out of time to look, but you can check the online Family History Library catalog for MA VR. I did check some of the VR for Barnstable Co. and didn't find Charles. There was one born in Salem in Essex Co. (and apparently to a Danvers family) in 1798, but he married a Nancy, if I am reading things correctly, and they were all over--lived in TN for a while--and Nancy died after 1770 when the P'town Charles was living with Elizabeth. My searching has been very superficial, and I expect the information you are looking for is waiting for you somewhere.