Hi Malcolm, Somehow I missed your post on NJBURLIN-L, but fortunately a friend sent this to me. I'm not sure why it didn't come to my mailbox, but oh well. I was wondering about this Elizabeth LAMB myself. I feel she could be a daughter of Samuel LAMB and Nancy/Ann STARKEY. My late aunt had 3 children for Samuel and Nancy. (My aunt was born 1899 and spoke to many then living relatives of these families back in the early 1900s.) She had listed 3 children for Samuel LAMB and Nancy/Ann STARKEY - Nehemiah, born 1805 (my great great grandfather), Ann LAMB, born ca 1814 (married William MURDOCK - I don't think they had any children - I found none listed on the 1850 census when they were living in Pemberton Twp.) and Elizabeth or Libbie. I feel this Elizabeth could possibly be Samuel and Nancy/Ann's daughter. Given the spellings on US Censuses, it would not surprise me if this were MERRITT. Would you then know how Elizabeth connects to Jacob? Springfield Twp. was where my Nehemiah LAMB(born 1805) originally lived as that is where his first wife, Ann PATTERSON, was buried. (They married 1829 and Nehemiah remarried 1855 to Mary Ann WORTH.) The clincher *Might* be if she were listed as deaf. I have not looked at my late aunt's notes in awhile, but I think she had a notation about Libbie being deaf, but with a question mark. This Elizabeth fits the age bracket of when Samuel and Ann were having children. Donna Ristenbatt From: Malcolm Sharp <sharp@usc.edu> To: NJBURLIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: February 28, 2001 6:53:33 PM GMT Subject: Re: [NJBurlin] CENSUS NJ 1860, Burlington Co., Springfield Twp. p. 195 Wondering if this family surname is actually MERRITT? Anyone have an idea who Elizabeth LAMB might be? Perhaps a widowed sister of Jacob [I figure he was a widower?]? > BURLINGTON CO., NJ 15 August 1860, PO Burlington, Springfield Twp. 195 > 26 1469 1477 MURRET Jacob 50 m w NJ > 27 1469 1477 MURRET Mary 14 f w NJ > 28 1469 1477 MURRET Rachel 8 f w NJ > 29 1469 1477 LAMB Elizabeth 45 f w NJ > 30 1469 1477 LEWIS Margaret 16 f w domestic NJ > 31 1469 1477 DAVIS Ellen 30 f w domestic Ireland > 32 1469 1477 BUDD Horace 13 m w NJ > 33 1469 1477 MALONEY Joseph 30 m w farm work Ireland > 34 1469 1477 MALONEY William 26 m w farm work NJ Thanks. -- Malcolm Schalick Sharp http://sharp.rootsweb.com/ --