This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: C Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iEB.2ACE/628.6 Message Board Post: If you haven't already been swamped with requests for your help, I am trying to locate any possible information on the parents of my grandfather, John Humphrey Cross, born November 4, 1873 in Easton Maryland. In the 1880 Federal Census for Harmony, Caroline County, Maryland, he was living with William T. Perry, 23, and his wife Georgeanne Perry, 22. Both were born in Maryland. I have contacted the Caroline County Courthouse and they could not locate a marriage license for these Perrys. I do know there were several other Perry families living in the Harmony area in 1870 and 1880. I am wondering if there is any official guardianship record between John's mother, Eliza Cross, and the Perrys. I do not know whether Cross was Eliza's maiden name or married name and I do not know the name of his father. Eliza was born in Maryland in February, 1847 and her parents also were born in Maryland. I suspect that she grew up somewhere in the area surrounding Easton or Harmony. The 1860 Caroline county census shows a William Tellis (?) family with a 13 year old named Eliza, but I am unable to read the surname clearly or find anything else on this family. I am really looking for any information which will give me Eliza's maiden name and hopefully the name of the father of my grandfather, John. Any help you can give me would be wonderful. Thanks in advance.