http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46301779 This should get you to "Henny" - wife #2 of Richard Spalding & 1st step-mother of Archbishop Spalding. Mrs. Wathen states she was born in Charles County & gives her parents. Do you all agree ? The Abell link didn't give her any parents, but stated she was an Abell born in St. Mary's. If her father was a Thompson, she wasn't a Miss Abell who had married a Thompson before she m. the widower Richard Spalding in 1817. David

Hi David, I had this notation. The following article was copied from Our Faith and Its Defendes by John Gilmary Shea, LL.D., page 77, 1872, Kentucky: Most Rev. Martin John Spalding, Second Bishop of Louisville, Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore. Martin John Spalding was born May 23 1810, on the Rolling Fork, Kentucky, where his grandfather, Benedict Spalding, had settled in 1790 when he came from St. Mary's County, Maryland. Both his parents, Richard Spalding and Henrietta Hamilton, were natives of that old Catholic county. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM, David Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46301779 > > This should get you to "Henny" - wife #2 of Richard Spalding & 1st > step-mother of Archbishop Spalding. > Mrs. Wathen states she was born in Charles County & gives her parents. > Do you all agree ? > The Abell link didn't give her any parents, but stated she was an Abell > born in St. Mary's. > > If her father was a Thompson, she wasn't a Miss Abell who had married a > Thompson before she m. the widower Richard Spalding in 1817. > > David > > ------------------------------- > 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 >