Thanks Shirley, I have all my Edelen line. But you mentioned Peter Montgomery ( he is my ancestor who came to America). My great great grandfather was Benjamin Franklin Montgomery as I have said. For a long time I could find not connection until I realized he was called simply "Franklin". On the 1850 census for Charles Co., Md he is listed as Franklin and being 7 years old. He was from the first marriage of his father James Henry Montgomery to Jane E. Berry. When he was grown he married Anne Jane Gilmore of Canada and they lived at "Mt. Eagle" in Bryantown. He died of consumption or somethign in the 1880s and is buried beside his parents in St. Mary's church grave yard there. As for Anne Jane Gilmore, here is an excerpt from my Montgomery file: --------------------------------------- ANNE JANE GILMORE, B. 3/30/1849-1850 at "Gilmore" in Grant Co., Ontario, Canada.--D. Saturday, April 7, 1934 and is buried in the family plot in Mount Olivet Cemetery somewhere in D.C.. I am not sure if it was a Montgomery plot or Gilmore plot, because there is also a Montgomery Family Plot in "Rock Creek" Cemetery in N. East D.C. where her son Chalres Henry Archibald Montgomery is buried. For her obiturary, see below. Her husband Benjamin Franklin Montgomery was buried beside or near his parents in St. Mary's Cemetery in Bryantown, Md.. I was told that after his death, Anne took the children and moved back to Canada for a while, then eventually moved back to Washington, D.C., never to go back to Bryantown and never let her children know or associate with their Montgomery relatives in Bryantown, etc. I wonder why? One relative told me that she had always heard that there was some sort of bad blood between the Gilmores and Montgomerys. If I remember correctly it was that the Gilmores did not want their daughter to marry Mr. Montgomery, feeling that the Montgomerys were beneath their station in life or something of that nature. Anne Jane Gilmore was from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Thomas T. and Anne (Cuttle) Gilmore. Anne Cuttle was daughter of Sir John and Lady Jane Cuttle of "Arkena", Rockingham, England. Sir John was a member of British Parliament and the Earl of Rockingham. Note: Her obituar says her father was Henry T. Gilmore, but my grandmother and great aunts said it was Thomas Thompson Gilmore. I figure they should know. ---------------------- Later, David Middleton Edelen II Alabama ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Warren" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: [MDCHARLE] John Baptist Edelen > David, > I found this in Mary Donnelly's "Charles County Maryland, My Colonial > Ancestors, Plus Others", Page 201 : > "Ann Helen Clements, the only child of Elizabeth Neale and Jacob Clements > married John Baptist Edelen and was named as a sister in the will of her > half-sister Elizabeth McAtee when she died in 1811." > > There is a John Baptist Montgomery. Found a Benjamin Montgomery b 1748, > but > no Benjamin Franklin. Peter Montgomery was born 1684 in France. He > leased > a tract of land near Bryantown from Joshua Guilbert. > > There is a list of the children of Richard Edelen II and Sarah Hagan if > you > need it. > > Shirley Warren (I think there are four Shirleys on this list) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message