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/SFB.2ACI/4234.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, the name LONEY [not Looney] is from Baltimore county. I don't see a direct connection to FORD, though. William LONEY, who m1. Jane OVERTON, dau/o Thomas; & m2. 27 Apr. 1706, Arabella WALSTON, died by 8 S 1720, adm. bond posted by widow Arabella with Francis HOLLAND, Wm. COOK, & Benj. OSBORN; inv. by Thomas CORD or CARR & Jno. CLARK. Benj. LONEY, s/o Wm., m. Ann NORRIS. Benj. LONEY adm. estates of his sister Margaret and her husband John WATKINS [from Robert BARNES' Balto. Co. Families, 1659 - 1759]. Those names you listed in the marriages, Nacky & Achaash, are probably both Achsah. Achsah is a Biblical name, and Nacky was a nickname for it. Never give up!