Joyce, Have you looked at the 1860 census records? It would give the maiden name of John's wife in 1860. OHHOLMES-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > OHHOLMES-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 86 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [OHHOLMES] SCHAMP [joyce moran <jkmoran@brainerd.net>] > #2 [OHHOLMES] Re: birth records [Cindy <ckimes@mvillage.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from OHHOLMES-D, send a message to > > OHHOLMES-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [OHHOLMES] SCHAMP > Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:06:46 -0500 > From: joyce moran <jkmoran@brainerd.net> > To: OHHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com > > My gggrandfather, John Henry SCHAMP, was born in the Millersburg, OH > area in 1855. Do birth records exist for that early date that would > show his parents? I do know that his father was Robert G. Schamp, but I > need proof of his mother's name, believed to be Elinor MAY. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [OHHOLMES] Re: birth records > Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:25:41 -0500 > From: Cindy <ckimes@mvillage.com> > To: OHHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com > > Can't answer on dates for birth records (I'm guessing nothing that > early), but how about baptismal records? Do you know what church the > family was associated with? Sometimes the baptismal records list the > mother's maiden name. > > joyce moran wrote: > > > > My gggrandfather, John Henry SCHAMP, was born in the Millersburg, OH > > area in 1855. Do birth records exist for that early date that would > > show his parents? I do know that his father was Robert G. Schamp, but I > > need proof of his mother's name, believed to be Elinor MAY. > > -- Bob Cameron Canton, Ohio