Attention Mattingly researchers. If you've not visited this site you will want to. It has quite a bit of mention of your lines & history of interest in ME & KY. Norma willing share this with us all. Carol in WA In a message dated 7/24/01 5:59:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: [MatneyForum] Peakes of MD Date: 7/24/01 5:59:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: [email protected] (Norma Lewis) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] I've just been referred to this Peake site by another Peake family member and it is very interesting, taken partly from a book by a Catholic Sister who has left out our early Mattingly history because she evidently ignored the variant spellings of Pake and Peek. This site is very interesting. You all should look at it for the early history of St. Mary's County MD. Also, there is so much more recently found info from that early era, although St. Mary's Courthouse was burned in 1831 and all the early records lost ~ this new data PROVES the inadequacy of the many books written about the Mattinglys. There is much more data to be found in MD records than what they turned up. I'm writing these guys to tell them they left out Walter's second wife. Also, Carolyn and all, I think our Walters are named for Walter Pake/Peake and his sons who evidently lived in close proximity in St. Charles County MD. The first Walter was hung for murder, it is explained on this site, but he had a son named Walter by his first wife, Frances. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~slhessick/index.htm Norma >>