Wish I had more information and what I do have is sheer speculation at this time. Joseph Mattingly and Helen Higgins reportedly had a son named Richard, born about 1790. This Richard married Mary Elizabeth Smith (some controversy does exist as there was also a Richard Mattingly from the John Townley line who is married to Rebecca Cox on the 1850 census of Mason County. There is some speculation that this Richard married Eliza Smith). I tend to think it was the son of Joseph instead and the Mason County Richard had no son named John C., that I know of. There is a Richard Mattingly in Spencer County during the census of 1830 (between the ages of 40 and 50 - just the right age) with a son under the age of 5. I believe this was the son of Joseph and from the line of Thomas Mattingly, II (Joseph was a son of John Baptist Mattingly and Ann Spalding). This child under the age of 5 seems to be John Carroll, who was born 5-4-1827. By 1850 the Spencer County census shows a 'single' John C. Mattingly, aged 22, in the home of George Billman. I suspect this is John Carroll. The other names don't click with me at all. There aren't that many Kerrick's in Kentucky during 1850 and I suspect Mary Teresa was a daughter of Sebert Kerrick who is found in Spencer County on the 1850 census as follows: Sebert Kerrick 46 (all born in Kentucky) Rose A. 41 Mary T. 15 (born about 1835) Rosa Coombs 19 (don't know who these last two were) Harriett Jones 15 ***************** Spencer County KY Marriages 1853 > >MATTINGLY, John C. and Mary Teresa KERRICK, 16 Nov. 1853; B-James E. MUDD; >M-James ELLIOTT; P-Taylorsville; W-Thomas WALTERS, Matilda COOMES > >Anyone know who the parents etc of this John C Mattingly would be or Mary >Teresa Kerrick's kinfolks.