This came as a surprise to me, folks... I have been exclusively looking for my father's lines in Luzerne County, and doing a search for one of my mother's lines, I found a George STOCKHAM (not, George! I have 6 of them already!) in Luzerne on Tammy's site. The following is an excerpt of a DAVIES that shows a connection: Benjamin DAVEY, Sr., mine contractor, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Cornwall, England, November 28, 1846, a son of Benjamin and Ann (Firstbrook) Davey. He was reared and educated in his native country, where he began life in the mines at twelve years of age, and followed the different grades of mining from a beginner up, until 1866. He then came to America, locating in northern Michigan, where he was employed in the copper mines for five years. In 1871 he located in Wilkes-Barre, and since has been continuously engaged in mining, contracting, sinking shafts, etc., with the exception of one year spent in California in the gold mines. In 1887, Mr. Davey formed a partnership with John Wasley, under the firm name of Davey & Wasley. Mr. Davey has twice been married: first in 1866 to Caroline, daughter of Bartholomew and Mary (Ninners) Youren, of Cornwall, England, by whom he had three children, Benjamin Jr., Carrie and Thomas; his second wife was Anna, daughter of George Stockham of Plymouth, Pa, and by her he has two children, Hannah and George. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the I.O.F.; in politics, he is a Republican. Can anyone tell me of any STOCKHAM connection or data you may have? This is a most interesting line. Although I have only ever found them in PA/MD/and Camden, NJ, the Ohio group (the largest, I suspect) seems possibly to have come from an "illegitimate" offspring of an early one of these, born around the time of the war of 1812. All that I have found of my line have never spelt it STOCKUM or STOCKEM, etc., but only STOCKHAM, though rarely I have seen them referred to with these spellings. Thanks, Vince Summers