Dale, Thanks so much. I really appreciate your help. Martha's father was likely Andrew Redmond (which is the same surname as Redman). He was the son of a Northern Irish flax mill owner (Moses Redmond) who sold the business and bought a plantation in the Carolinas. The family was shipwrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia about 1816 (Andrew was born about 1800), and the kids and their descendants ended up all over North America. Andrew went to Massachusetts and lived past 100 (I have a copy of an interview with him in the year 1900). Allegedly, the Redmonds are descended from the southern Irish Redmans. The story is that one of them fell in love with a Protestant girl and was disowned by the family then moved to Ulster or Antrim. As it happens, both my father and his father as well as my middle name come from the son of the Martin King who married Mary Martha Redmond. Anyhow thanks again for the help. Let me know if you or anyone else needs an ancestry lookup. Kenneth --- "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@cox.net> wrote: > At 08:00 PM 3/14/2007, Kenneth wrote: > > >I'm trying to determine if there is a > >marriage record for Martin and Martha King in > Bristol > >County Mass (or thereabouts) from the second half > of > >the 1850s. > > Many Canadian immigrants worked their way south > through New England, > living first in one or more places closer to Canada > than their final > place of settlement. Such seems to be the case with > this couple. > > Martin King married Martha Redman 09-Aug-1857 at > Lynn, where both > then lived. He was 23, a blacksmith, born in Nova > Scotia, son of > Martin King. She was 21, born in Nova Scotia, > daughter of ??? > Redmond. The spelling of Martha's surname and that > of her father > appear to differ, and I can't quite puzzle out her > father's given > name. I will send you an image off-list. > > Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, Centennial > Broadcasting, > Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA - WZZI / WZZU / WLNI / WLEQ > http://members.cox.net/dalehcook/starcity.shtml > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to MABRISTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news