[email protected] wrote: >>I'm just going to lurk on this list for awhile to see whether anyone here is doing serious research into the mystery of Hezekiah Bonham's second marriage (was there one?) - if yes, when, where whom did he legally marry? - and do the children from that wrong second wife Anne remain in place for whoever any "real" second wife might have been?<< Janet ~ A quick look turned up these two in books and censuses......Hezekiah and Jane and Hezekiah and Beulah were both still in the 1870 censuses......Are either of these two families the ones you're looking for? Dianne * * * * * * * From: The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950 by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, 1950 Page 74. 302. Jacob6 FitzRandolph (158) b. Shiloh, N.J., Aug. 28, 1775; died there Sept.20, 1845; married there July 28, 1800, Margaret Ayres, b. there Sept. 13, 1778, d. there May 13, 1864, dau. Elijah and Anna (Dunn) Ayres. Children, born in Shiloh, N.J. [there were 7 children....the fourth child was] iv. Beulah Maria, b. June 8, 1809; married Jan. 3, 1833, Hezekiah Bonham, b. Jan. 11, 1812, son of Enoch & Sarah (Townsend) Dunham. * * * * * * indexed as Hezckiah Bonham.... Hezekiah, age 38 Beulah, age 37 Cinderella, age 15 Lucius, age 12 Anna M., age 8 Jacob, age 5 Year: 1850; Census Place: Stow Creek, Cumberland, New Jersey; Roll: M432_446; Page: 288 * * * * * indexed as Kezekiah Bonham...... Hezekiah, age 48 Beulah, age 52 Lucius, age 22 Hannah M., age 15 Jacob, age 14 Year: 1860; Census Place: Hopewell, Cumberland, New Jersey; Roll: M653_687; Page: [written 611] * * * * * * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~* * * * * * * Family records, or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley (and vicinity) above Chatham : with their ancestors and etc. by John Littell, 1851 Page 237. Charles Buxton (son of Edmund) and Rebeccca Ferguson had children [there were 8 listed] the third was: 3. Jane, born July 4, 1817, married Hezekiah Bonham and had children: 1. John Bonham 2. Ellis Bonham 3. Eliza Jane Bonham 4. Tyler Bonham. * * * * * * H. Bonham, 45, b. NJ "Jana" Bonham, 43 with children: John, 18 Eliza A., 17 "N.S.", age 15 "Tyle", age 12 Henry, age 9 Henrietta, age 5 Jesse W., age 3 Year: 1860; Census Place: Columbia, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: M653_981; Page: 331 * * * * *