Thank you, Cynthia. It may well be a misreading of the census, I will check my local library on this Thursday. In looking over dob's for these ladies and what I have entered into my database, I see that I have the following Mary A. So am hoping that someone might have more data on the following family as to whether there was a Nancy A. as well. I am pretty sure that the Ambrose CRANFORD I mentioned earlier does not have a dau named Mary, but have found the following that might fit. I show a daughter, Mary A. of Leonard Cranford and Lucy NEWSOME CRANFORD which has the dob of 1841. The Mary A. of the census 1880 Montgomery Co., NC is listed as being aged 40, placing her dob at or about 1840. Would anyone know if Leonard and Lucy also had a dau named Nancy A? But there is a slight possibility that this Nancy A. and Mary A. listed in the household of Spencer MOORE might be related to Joel Griffin CRANFORD who is stated to have married Claudia Elizabeth MOORE, she was the daughter of Elisha MOORE and Sarah HULIN MOORE. But I do not have any further info on these folks at the moment. If this Claudia Elizabeth is possibly the Canliss E. MOORE that is listed in the 1880 census in the household of Spencer MOORE that the two CRANFORD ladies show up in, that might be a connection. But again, I have no further data. Would anyone have a clue? Thanks! Cathy Cranford-Ailstock pastseeker@nc.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ruhi19@aol.com> To: <pastseeker@nc.rr.com>; <> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [NCMONT] Jeremiah Moore & Cranfords > I can think of 2 possibilities for the discrepancy in your Mary A./Mary S. > First, handwriting is difficult to decipher and the documents we have to work > with do not always convey the subtleties that we need to determine one letter > from another especially when we have only one letter to work with. Second, > the Cranfords, Lillys, Ballards etc. seem to enjoy giving their children > multiple names so that we have H.A.C. Ballard as an example. Then they use > the middle name (H. Ann C.) as the name they use. Your Mary could be Mary > A.S. Cranford or Mary S.A. Cranford or someone had trouble reading the "A" or > "S" in the records.