On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:17:10 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 10/18/2000 6:32:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< Cyrus C. Corby 36 NJ NJ NJ > Anna 35 Wife NJ NJ NJ > Walter N. 13 Son NJ NJ NJ > Anna N. 1 Dau NJ NJ NJ > Richard Norwood 75 Father NJ NJ NJ > Maria Norwood 45 Aunt Eng Eng Eng > >> > >Could Maria have been the wife of a younger brother of Richard Norwood? Is >there marital status information in this census? I think there is. This is what I initially thought. Especially when you see the different parental birth location info between Richard and Maria. Then there's the unlikely age difference between possible siblings. I have more couples than I can count that have children over a twenty-five year period, but I can't find one over a thirty year period. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Richard's family. I believe he's the oldest child of Cornelius Norwood and Elizabeth White. They were m. in 1802 in the same area that Richard was born in 1803 and Richard names his first son Cornelius. But I've only been able to find one baptism record related to this couple and that's for a son, William, born in 1811. Maybe she was m. to William. That would be a twenty-four year age difference between her and her husband, but then my great grandparents had a twenty-one year difference. This isn't exactly unheard of in this family. All that aside. The big problem is that the census lists her as single. Not married. Not widowed. I suppose it could be an error, but with Richard listed correctly as widowed right above her, I don't lean towards that explanation. Still a possibility though. Maria is not listed with Cyrus in 1900. Anna has already died by then so Maria being her family could have moved elsewhere. But then that's a twenty year gap so anything could have happened in that time frame. She could have died, married, be living with another relative, etc. (God, I miss the 1890 census.) No help there. Irene