Dear Frank, I can't help with your Geore, but could you explain how you connected to Samuel , oops! was this the Samuel, Sr. or Samnuel, jr. who were in the Lynch's Creek area of SC, or some other Samuel. Jane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [RATLIFF-L] New Thread..Success Story >For many years, too many to relate, all I knew about my ancestor, Lydia >RATCLIFFE, m Dec. 31, 1799 to William Walker in Barnwell Dist., SC was that >her father was named SAMUEL. I posted several messages to this list, >imploring anyone who had anything about a Lydia Ratcliffe who would have been >in SC at this time to please share it with me, all to no avail. > >About a month ago, Gary Radcliffe enclosed the web address of Donald Ratcliff >http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/1719/index.html >and said that it contained the most detailed list of Rat(c)liffs he had ever >seen. I visited the list and, voila!, I was able to connect my Lydia's Samuel >to the mainline Ratcliff stream that flowed back to 1066ad. Boy, has it ever >turned my quest around! Now, I feel able to help other Orangeburgh/Barnwell >Co.,SC researchers because of my "find". > >Thank you Gary for pointing me in this direction. Now, since you spell your >name with a "d" in it, perhaps you can help me with another Radcliffe >descendant who is researching the parentage of one GEORGE RADCLIFFE, b. 1806, >who lived in Barnwell District until some time after the 1860 census. I am >attempting to help her and am sorta stuck as to his father's name. I think it >may have been John and that he died some time after the 1820 census. I found >a John Ratcliffe in Orangeburgh Dist. in 1820 who had a son who could have >been George's age. He was not listed in the 1830 census. I found a Charlotte >Ratcliffe in the 1830 Barnwell Dist. census who lived in the same neighborhood >that George lived in the 1850 census. I theorize that John died and his >widow's family lived in Barnwell Dist. and she went to live with them. There >was one old man in Charlotte's family who could have been her father and a son >of the right age group could have been George. Have you possibly ever heard >of this family? George had sons, Aaron (b. 1835) and Owen (b. 1837-d.1927) >Frank > >[email protected] >Dum Spiro Spero!!! > > >==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== >Neither HTML nor RTF is acceptable for mailing lists. It causes >problems for Rootsweb servers and for certain email programs. >Please turn these functions off. The following URL explains how >to correct the problem in various programs. >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm > > >