Question: Other than Wm. LaBach's website at <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~labach/noldhama.htm"> http://members.tripod.com/~labach/noldhama.htm</A> is there is any documentation of the dates cited in your most recent e-mail? Documentation is the keyword when one joins a lineage society. Some ladies have presented to me a torn piece of paper with a scribbled pedigree chart, and when I tell them that is inadequate for a lineage society, they are dismayed. WE have to dig, dig, dig--sometimes for two years, particularly if it is a common name. And, contrary to what one thinks, Oldham is NOT an uncommon name. Particularly if the persons are from Northern Neck Virginia. The name Oldham is very common in the county of Leicester in England. We can guesstimate Jesse Oldham's age because of a deposition he gave to a KY court at about age 75. However, in 1755, in Capt. John Asbhy's company, cited in Bockstruck's Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, he is given the age 21 (he may have been stretching his age). I am particularly interested in the date of birth given for Jesse's wife, Elizabeth Simpson. Who has the family Bible???? Those of you who do colonial research in the South know that for the most part, unless we have a deposition or a military record or a pension record, most dates we come up with for births are pure guesstimates. I was taught that men generally (generalization only) got married after they had acquired land, and one could use a guesstimate of age 26. For a female, it could be any age, of course, after about age 14 or so. Also, another generalization I have made for myself, if a man married subsequent to his first marriage, he either married a widow or a young, poorer girl. Any comments? Another topic: Someone is interested in the numerous Richard Oldhams. In Caswell Co., NC, there were two Richard Oldhams in the early tax lists. One guesstimate is that the one with land was Richard Oldham, the father of Jesse. The younger Richard without the land was Jesse's son. Incidentally, Richard Oldham is a common combination of names. One of the early Northern Neck Land Grants lists Richard Oldham. In and around Madison Co., KY, there were two Richard Oldhams, both of whom got Rev War pensions. There was Richard "Ready-Money" Oldham whose second wife (and widow) was the former Patsy Reid (later of Platte Co., MO), and then there was what some of us Oldham descendants call Richard "Estill" Oldham, who resided in the county of that name. His exact relationship to the Jesse Oldham family has never been clear to me. By the way, the outline given in the first volume of W. H. Miller's History and Genealogies.... of the Oldham family is terribly flawed. He has mixed up the Louisville Oldhams with the Madison Co. Oldhams. The Louisville Oldhams came directly from Virginia. The Madison Co. Oldhams (correct me if I'm wrong) came from Caswell Co., NC. Some were there in the 1760s, as revealed by Orange Co., NC court records. E.W.Wallace descendant of Jesse Oldham and his son R/M