>From: SMTP%"tomas@ziplink.net" 19-APR-1999 10:25:35.60 >Message-ID: <371B3C56.329F@ziplink.net> >From: Tom Sharpless <tomas@ziplink.net> >> >From: SMTP%"PACHESTE-L-request@rootsweb.com" 18-APR-1999 02:03:22.14 >> >From: Herb E Ottey <otteyhe@codenet.net> >> Any relation to the John OTTEY who m. Ann IDDINGS, d/o Richard IDDINGS >> and Margaret PHILLIPS? Ann was b. 1680 and d. 1753 but I don't have any >> original sources for those dates... I'm descended from her brother William >> who m. Mary MOORE... >Hello Cousin Ron, >I too descend from William Iddings and Mary Moore. I thought his mother >was Margaret Charles, daughter of Charles Lloyd. It was the only instance >I had of a major surname change. You're correct; as somebody else pointed out (and I'll send his message shortly), it was Richard's son Richard who m. Margaret Phillips... >I descend through their son, William b. 1726; d 1 Dec 1800, who married >Hannah Lewis in 1748. >Tom Sharpless in West Simsbury, CT Are you also connected to the Hannah Sharpless who m. William's son William per http://www.familysearch.com/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=14571007? I found a reference to a "Sharpless genealogy" in my Iddings research, but don't remember the details - know anything about it? You can see my descent from the first William's brother Henry at http://members.aol.com/lunetta595/Records/AddCorr/bauerle.htm Cousin Ron