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    1. [PAGE] Descendants of Axcel Heath Page
    2. George W. Page
    3. Yesterday while searching the 1850 US Federal Census of in Lafayette Co., MO, on-line at Ancestry.com I found two male PAGEs obviously named after Axcel Heath Page of Goochland Co., VA, (My Page Y-DNA Family Line P). Both were born in MO to a different parents who were all b. KY: Axcel H. Page b.c. 1839 in MO (Father Joseph H. Page, age 36, b. in KY; m. Elizabeth Unk., b. 1819 in KY). Axeel H. Page, b.c. 1842 in MO (Father Richard F. Page, age 35, b. in KY; m. Margaret age 36, b. ). Low and behold! In the 1830 Federal Census of Lafayette County, MO I found: Axel H. Page age 40-50, with the following family members (-,-,1,4,1-,1, -, -, {} 1 female age 40-50. As this Axel(Axcel) H. Page was born between 1780 and1790, he is probably a descendant (grandson) of the Axcel Heath Page of Goochland Co., VA, who died in 1780. These three enumerations confirm in my mind that the name of the Page progenitor in Goochland Co., VA, was Axcel Heath Page, not combined into one word (Exelheath or Axcelheath). The question remains unanswered as to whether his Heath middle name was a surname of a family allied to Axcel Heath Page's ancestor; a geophysical location ("An extensive area of rather level, open, uncultivated land usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich in peat or peaty humus"); or, botanical part of the Ericaceae family, the heath family of evergreen shrubs that thrive in open barren, and usually acidic undrained soil. George W. Page PAGE Y-DNA Project Administrator www.PageY-DNA.Org

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