This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Garner/Gardiner/Gardner/Russell/Wall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kUB.2ACE/2021.1.3 Message Board Post: Hi Tim, While reading the queries for Randolph, I noted your query re: Barzilla GARNER. I am not familiar with the name GARNER, but I have studied a little on a Barzilla GARDNER/GARDINER. One Barzilla GARDNER, a Quaker, came from Nantucket MM to New Garden MM, in Guilford Co. NC. Barzilla was a son of Stephen and Jemima Gardner, and married Jemima Macy in 1774 [per New Garden min. in Hinshaw's ENCY. OF AM. GENEALOGY.] Later, I find a Barzilla GARDINER in Mecklenburg Co., and working as a silversmith. I have a coin silver spoon with this Barzilla GARDINER's hallmark, and it is engraved with the name RUSSELL. I have learned that one Barzilla GARDNER (of Guilford Co.) removed here from Nantucket with several Quaker families, among them RUSSELL'S, who also settled in Randolph Co.-Do you think this could possibly be the same man? Weren't your WALLS from the northern part of Randolph, not far from the Guilford-New Garden, area? I would like to know if Barzilla GARDNER of Guilford is the same Barzilla GARDINER (spelled with an "i" in the middle) of Mecklenburg Co., NC.