This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hF0.2ACIB/19.48 Message Board Post: Do you have a record of a McElroy from North Carolina who married a Beatty from Ireland between 1770 and 1805? The Beatty could have been spelled Beaty, Beattie, Batey, or Beatty. They had a son in South Carolina in 1819 named William Washington Beatty. I am trying to locate William's parents. William gave one of his sons McElroy as a middle name.