This problem is complicated when dealing with our Gaelic ancestors because of the naming system they followed resulting in multiple persons, spanning three or four generations, all with the same name, in the same family group, all alive at the same time, and all,very likely, living in the same general area. My wife traces back to a Christopher Houston (Huston) of Brandywine Hundred, Delaware (I believe this is the hundred in which White Clay Creek, mentioned in an earlier post, is located). I haven't looked at the data lately, but I believe he died cir. 1624. He had a daughter, Margaret, we believe, who married Hugh Linn. It is from this union my wife is descended. Hugh and Margaret migrated to Rowan Co., N.C. As the Scotch-Irish tended to move as families and extended families, it is possible that the Christopher Houston (1744-1836) of Iredell Co. is a grandson or great grandson of Margaret's father as, I believe, Iredell, or parts of it were carved from Rowan (or vice versa). Incidentally, there is another Christopher Houston buried in a Presbyterian Church yard across the state line in Pennsylvania (I believe it is in the Westtown area of Chester Co., or maybe near Concordville, I don't remember exactly) who is not the Christopher who died cir. 1624 in Delaware ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour