I didn't mean to double post that last, I used the back button, changed the to bar and forgot to change the message! Chester County seems to have been chock full of Thomas M. Moore's. In addition to mine, who lived in Lower Oxford in 1850 and Lancaster County in 1860 and then dematerialized, and Cathy Berger's in Delaware County, who is not mine as he lived in 1850 in his parents' household, there was a Thomas M. Moore in Upper Uwchlan. I checked in 1860 and 1850 census records to make sure that he wasn't in fact my Thomas M. Moore. No, he was a different one, similar in age but married to a different woman and had different children. But the woods are just full of coincidences. Now, when it comes to Moores, I've had some real good coincidences fail to pan out. But I'm curious about this one due to the tendency of Scotch Irish and northern English families to repeat names, and Francis was not one Moores in Pennsylvania often used. I wonder if my Thomas M. Moore b ca 1820-25 was perhaps closely related to them. He cannot have been their brother, since they had a Thomas M. Moore close to him in age. I found the following Moores in Upper Uwchlan in 1850. Richard John Francis J. Rachel Charles Charles C. I"m not actually sure Thomas M was there; if he had been, I would not have needed to run and looked at the 1860 census record for him to be certain he wasn't the same man as Thomas M Moore who was in Lower Oxford in 1850 and not in 1860. My Thomas M Moore had children William, Francis, Charles, and several daughters. That is alot of coincidental names, and they have the unusual one, Francis. Does anyone know who Richard, John, Francis J and Charles and Charles C, and Thomas M, of Upper Uwchlan, were? Upper Uwchlan is in the center of the northern part of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Yours, Dora Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/