Your Oldham ancestor chart is of interest. I am descended from Jesse Oldham (d. 1814 in Madison Co., KY) whose alleged parents are: Richard Oldham and Elizabeth Basye, probably of Northern Neck Virginia and perhaps later of North Carolina. I say alleged because I have found no documentation that Richard Oldham and Elizabeth Basye, who must have resided near Northumberland Co., VA in 1745 or so, are the same persons who have migrated to Caswell Co., NC (formed 1777 from Orange Co., NC). Indeed, to date, I have found no Elizabeth Oldham in records of Orange Co., NC nor in Caswell Co., NC. Of course, in North Carolina, it was not the custom/law for wives to relinquish dower in the executed deed as it had been in Virginia, at least in the southern part of Virginia. (So says Mrs. Helen Leary--Mrs. North Carolina genealogy--in some of her lecturs.) Do you have documentation of the presence of the same Richard Oldham (as in Basye's will) and his migration to North Carolina? Do you have any land records, wills, tax records, court records--anything at all? Indeed, the early tax lists ca 1777 of Caswell Co. list a seemingly older Richard Oldham. However, I have found no records, other than the tax list, which give me a handle on this fellow coming from Virginia. Richard Oldham is a favorite name among Oldham families of Northern Neck Virginia--for many generations, and in many famiiles, it seems.. We are severely handicapped by the missing records of Orange Co., North Carolina. There is one record--a tax list in Caswell Co., NC-- but can we assume he is the same Richard Oldham, son-in-law of Edmond Basye? We can document the appearance ca 1763 in Orange Co. of Jesse Oldham and his [assumed] brother James Oldham. These are from my notes on Jesse Oldham: Orange Co., NC Records Land records show that Jesse and James Oldham were in Orange Co., NC before April 1763, by the time of the land survey for James Oldham. Also, a Richard Oldham was deeded land by one Jesse Simpson in Orange Co., NC, Nov 1763. It is unclear whether "Jessey" Oldham was a neighbor of James Oldham. He was a sworn chain carrier. The relationship of the two Oldham men to each other is unknown, but the assumptions is they were brothers. "Oldham, James - survey - 29 Apr 1763; 180 acres on north side Haw R., joins Robt. Wells; Robt. Wells, JESSEY OLDHAM: SCC. 2 copies." Hoping that you have some documents about Richard Oldham [of whom there are MANY of the same name]. E.W.Wallace An Oldham-Simpson descendant of Caswell Co., NC & Madison Co., KY