This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ray (of Talbot Cty, MD) and related lines, Thornton, Devinney, League, Botfield, Colston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/3315 Message Board Post: I'm looking for information on an Eliza Thornton who married a James Devinney (we're told he was from DE) in Baltimore, MD (IGI gives date as 7 June 1834). Their daughter, Ann Eliza Devinney (5 Jan. 1835 - Dec. 1918) married James H. League (Jan. 1833 - 14 Dec. 1916) in Baltimore, MD, 28 Feb. 1855. This James H. League enlisted in a New York regiment 30 Aug. 1861 under the alias Henry J. Royston in order to avoid being forced by his father to serve in the Confederate armed forces. He transferred from this New York regiment to the US Navy where he served from 30 Aug. 1861 until honorably discharged, 9 Nov. 1862. The children of James H. League and Ann Eliza Devinney were Marian (1 Mar. 1858 -?), Carrie (5 Mar. 1864 -?) and Olivia May (6 Feb. 1867 - 1963) who married in Baltimore (10 Apr. 1888) Grason Ray (13 June 1866 - 28 Oct. 1942). By all accounts, Olivia's mother Ann Devinney and grandmother Eliza Thornton maintained that Eliza Thornton was a great niece of Honorable Mat! thew Thornton, last signer of the US Declaration of Independence. My sister, who has actually done the vast majority of the research on this found, regrettably, that the IGI microfilm that has a marriage license for a James Devinney and Eliza Thornton married in Baltimore does not give any other information. We would both appreciate any further information that anyone might have.