Mc at the beginning of a name is not obligatory. It is like the O in O'Riley You will find it both ways. I have Kinney and McKinney in Hunterdon and have tried to figure out if they are the same family. In a message dated 4/4/2012 3:49:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nlheath@verizon.net writes: The discussion of name discrepancies reminded me of a puzzle in one of my Hunterdon families that I've been trying to figure out. My g-g-grandmother's marriage record to George B. Heath in Kingwood Township in 1843 gives her name as Maria MANNES. I had thought it likely that it was actually MANNERS, but found her death certificate listing her father's name as William MCMANNERS. William McManners and wife Sarah are in the 1850 Delaware Township census with daughter Harriet. William's property is shown on the 1851 Cornell map of Hunterdon County with the McManners name, and he also appears under that name in the 1830 and 1840 censuses. After searching for other family members, I found that there were several other children of William and Sarah McManners, but 6 of the 7 children used the name MANNESS. Most moved to Pennsylvania, but one of them, Henry R. MANNESS, is buried at Sandy Ridge Cemetery. The youngest daughter, Harriet, was apparently the only one who used the MCMANNERS name. The final puzzler is that the parents, William and Sarah MCMANNERS, are also buried at Sandy Ridge Cemetery, but their markers, directly across from that of their son Henry MANNESS, show their name not as MCMANNERS or MANNESS but as MANNERS. Anyone else connected to this family, or any theories as to why these people might have had such a problem with their last name? Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message