Kelly KH Sullivan wrote: > > Thank you so very much for this information. > I was recently told that John Ratlff (Ratcliff), if he existed, was > probably a John Sicklemore? If I am not mistaken, it would appear by > your list that Captain John Smith sighted him as having been on either > the Sarah Constant, the Godspeed or the Discovery. In several different > papers I have come across the Discovery seems to be the ship most > mentioned in reference to the name John Ratliff (Ratcliff). Do you know > any thing about that, or have you a direction to point me in? > Do you know if he used an alias as suggested by the information > recently given to me? If so where did you find this information? > Might you also know about any of the Ratliffs that may have moved into > North Carolina from Virginia, as my own family I feel may have been there > too, but what county and where to start searching, I am not sure. My > family left Virginia by way of Tennessee having one son while there and > then as far as I know on to Illinois, yet the 1st child born in Illinois > was a Guilford, most likely named after the battle of Guilford in North > Carolina, leading me to wonder about the family possibly migrating from > Virginia, to Tennessee and, or, N. C. and then on to Illinois. Finally > resting in Texas... opps, I forgot, they did have a generation or so in > Arkansas too. > Once again thank you for your information and the sources of that > information. > Kelly > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== > Problems with Unsubscribing? Did you remember to add > " -request" before the @ symbol? > Contact list owner Mari mailto:[email protected] Dear Kelly, The name Sicklemore was Capt. Sir John's birth name. He took his step- father's name when his mother remarried. The old history books say that it was an alias but henever used the name Ratcliffe to deceive anyone. Did he not make two trips to America? One on the Discovery and one on the Diamond? The book I quoted from is "A History of Virginia" which I read many years ago and was written perhaps one hundred years after 1610. He was the captain of the Diamond, as I recall. I don't believe that there were any children from Sir John's marriage to Dorothie. There is more data on him in my files but it will take some looking to find it. Gary Radcliffe