In a message dated 4/3/2004 7:59:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ldmorales6838@sbcglobal.net writes: > Ancestry calls the MO 1820 census lost, along with others. > > Laurie Morales > > Judith Burger <bburger1-2@comcast.net> wrote: > Charley, there doesn't seem to be a 1820 Missouri Census online that I can > find. Judith Judith, Laurie, et al Oops, my mistake. Missouri was not formed as a State until 1821, according to Everton publishers in Handy Book for Genealogists. The first Census was taken in 1830. Perry County was formed in 1820 from St Genevieve that was formed as a District in 1812. Apparently no other counties were broken off from Perry County; and Everton does not list any records kept by the County Clerk in the 7th Edition I have, that is now about 20 years old. There is likely an 8th Ed, 9th Ed, and possibly 10th Ed avialable somewhere Charley.

At 02:35 PM 4/4/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Perry County was formed in 1820 from St Genevieve that was formed as a >District in 1812. Apparently no other counties were broken off from Perry >County; >and Everton does not list any records kept by the County Clerk in the 7th >Edition I have, that is now about 20 years old. There is likely an 8th >Ed, 9th Ed, >and possibly 10th Ed avialable somewhere > >Charley. Charley, you have one of the newer versions of Everton's Handy Book for Genealogists. I have the sixth edition! I have been reading these messages about Barton Mattingly and Thomas Mattingly and others. My Mattingly ancestor was Margaret Mattingly dau. of James Barton Mattingly a brother of Richard Mattingly whose son, John married Sarah Wheatley dau. of Leonard Wheatley (another ancestor of mine). Margaret Mattingly married Joseph O. Lewis who were the parents of Susan Apalone Lewis who married Arthur Sylvester Mays (son of Elijah Mays and Mary Elizabeth Wheatley another dau. of Leonard Wheatley. Now, just to make this a little more fun Joseph O. Lewis had at least 5 wives including Ann Hinton, Margaret Mattingly and Minerva Jane Wheatley dau. of Arthur Wheatley (a son of Leonard Wheatley). Going back to Elijah Mays and Mary Elizabeth Wheatley, they only had two children: Arthur Sylvester Mays and Sarah Ann Mays who married a Leonard Mattingly (1813-1896) a son of James Mattingly & Priscilla Wayne. Sarah Ann Mays & Leonard Mattingly were the parents of John Sylvester Mattingly md. Mary Ellen Mays (dau. of Arthur Sylvester Mays & Susan Apalone Lewis). I descend from Mary Ellen Mays' younger sister, Dona Isabella Mays who married, outside the family and outside of the Catholic Church, James Henry Wood. Mary Ellen Mays is the grandmother of Mary Ruth Bye for those of you who know of her. She has all of the Lewis, Mays, Beavins, Hintons, Mattinglys and Wheatleys of Breckinridge Co., KY all pretty much sorted out. I, on the other hand, do not have the ability to keep them straight in my mind or in my Family Tree Maker software. It took all of my brainwaves to write the paragraph preceding this one. I believe that my James Barton Mattingly is the son of Richard Mattingly (abt. 1720 - abt. 1783) who was the son of John Mattingly & Grace Brewer and the brother of the Luke Mattingly you all have been writing about in connection to a Barton Mattingly. Does anyone have more information on my Richard Mattingly (1720-1783) son of John Mattingly and Grace Brewer? All I know about him is that he was born about 1720 and died about 1783 no locations who his parents are (no documentation, however) and four sons: Richard Mattingly, Charles Barnet Mattingly, Joseph Mattingly, and my ancestor James Barton Mattingly. I do not have much on James Barton Mattingly either. I do have this: "Census records indicate 10 children 1790-1815. Not of age to be on 1783 Washington Co., Maryland Tax List. All four brothers first in Nelson then Washington Co., KY records 1792-1800 - Breckinridge Co., KY in 1802. James Barton Mattingly & Charles B. both purchased property from Edw. DeHaven. Along with Richard, Jr., the three brothers had an adjacent property line to another. Richard, Jr.'s will and James Barton Mattingly's estate were both entered for probate in the Mar 1833 term of court." And that James Barton Mattingly was born about 1764 and died about 1833 (no locations known). I would appreciate any help from this exceptionally knowledgeable group on this very confusing Mattingly family. John G. West