This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qi3.2ACIB/1446.1472.2 Message Board Post: Patsy, This William Norton is my line. I have been in touch with the Stonestreet researcher. There is no connection between William Norton and the Stonestreet family before his daughter married Butler Stonestreet. The following is a copy of a note from me to other Norton researchers in 1999. "This note is response to the email I received from Joanne and her correspondence with Warren Skidmore, genealogist for the Stonestreet family. I quote "I have looked at my manuscript for the new edition [of the Stonestreet book] and see why you are having problems. There was NO Elinor Stonestreet who married William Norton. William and Elinor (______) Norton had an eldest daughter SARAH who married Butler Edelen Stonestreet. I know very little about the Nortons. William Norton was aged 60 in 1776, and his wife Elinor was 38 (which suggests that she was perhaps a second wife?) There was NO Elinor Stonestreet born in the area of 1738 and every Elinor Stonestreet even born ROUGHLY in this period is accounted for." Obviously, this information is troubling at best, but true researchers welcome the chance to review information for validity...especially in the age of email where information is transmitted so quickly. I have looked over the information I received from Jane regarding the William Norton family. It seems all roads point to the research of one person, Martha Childs. In all the information I have, everyone refers back to Michael Parsons and Jane Powell. Jane's information is from Martha. There are two areas that trouble me. 1. Martha Childs says Nellie and Elinor Stonestreet are children of Thomas Stonestreet III. The Stonestreet book says Thomas III died young apparently without issue. All the pages from Martha Child show notes where she got her information EXCEPT Thomas Stonestreet III. There is no source given for this page....curious for a person who documented everything so carefully. Don't misunderstand...I don't think Martha lied. I think she read or heard something that gave her a link but that could not be documented. Any link however not documented, even if it was something heard, is a weak link at best. 2. There has always been a discrepancy between two Elinors born 10 years apart. Jane and I have written back and forth on this several times. I appears William Norton did marry an Elinor, just not Elinor Stonestreet. We cannot deny the Stonestreet line and the researcher who is writing his fourth book on the subject just to fit our line. There is a note from Martha regarding Elinor from the Muhlenburg County, KY Heritage; Vol. 5 No. 1 page 6 January 1983, in an article on Elinor Norton. I will look this up and see what it says. We know William Norton married Elinor ______. It is now our task to go back over information to find her last name since we have no proof that it was Stonestreet and the Stonestreet family does not claim the Norton family before Sarah marrying Butler." I do show the William you referring to who married a Mary...., but I do not have that line fleshed out as it is not my direct line. Donna Millican