This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pheasant, Estep, Hazard, Cornelius, Latta, Bennett, Osterman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZdB.2ACI/3142 Message Board Post: Hi there Pheasant family descendants. I am on a quest. I have been interested in collecting my Pheasant family ancestors since 1971 and doing the research since 1979. In all these years I have not found the source of information that states that Samuel, born in England, had the middle name of James. Do you know where, who, how and when the name James was added and what source this name James may have come from. Since a Pheasant family bible, printed in 1815, was located we have found more detailed data that will fill in a lot of those about dates. Yet the question of the origin of Samuel Pheasant's middle name James, that is posted to so many family sites on the net, still goes unanswered. Sharon Causer Huntington Beach, Ca ancestry@gte.net