--- On Wed, 1/28/09, James Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > Another interesting item: Reuben Nance, who patented land > adj Lambert (see below) named a son Bird Nance. (William > Nance, the father of Reuben, mentions two Lanier daughters, > so Bird Nance might have been named after Bird Thomas > Lanier.) John Lanier, who married Sarah Nance, and Frederick Lanier, who married Mary Nance, were sons of Benjamin B. Lanier. Benjamin B. Lanier and Bird Thomas Lanier were both sons of John Lanier and Elizabeth Byrd (granddaughter of William Byrd and Hannah Grendon). So presumably Bird Nance and Bird Thomas Lanier were each named after their grandmother Elizabeth Byrd. James