Hi to all those new to the list. In case you are not familiar, the Smock family was very prominent and very prolific in Monmouth County from very early on - lots of intermarriages with all the other "old time" families!!!! There was probably a Smock connection in the families you mentioned - thus the middle name. Try going back a generation or two and I am betting you will bump into a Smock. -- Candy_B cbservices@monmouth.com Researching Bennett, Cooper, Vanderveer, Woolley & related families in NJ Researching O'Brien, Brown, Boyle, Cavanaugh, Noonan, Fitzgerald, Spellman, Messier (Macey), LaCroix (Cross), Blais (Blair), Durand, Simonneau, Chabbot (Jabbot, Jabaut), Boucher, Sharron and related families in NY, New England and Quebec