Elizabeth, Anything you might come across on Rebecca Dutart (Dutarque) would be appreciated. I was in Charleston in February, but only had time for the historical society and the Hugeunot Society. My Thanks, Jean Faulk

Elizabeth, Thank you for the offer - but I was already able to get what I needed. I had information that my grandmother was baptized at Christ Church in 1926; and was able to find out the records were now located at St. Peter's Episcopal Church - and found out what I needed. The "Old" Christ Church was located at the corner of Sumter/Rutledge in Charleston; apparently now it is another denomination. I didn't know if you were looking to find records or what - but that is where the records were sent to. I don't know anything about parishes - (I'm a Baptist-then Presbyterian-now Baptist again) and I'm not familiar with "parishes" either. But, if you're looking for records, you might try St. Peter's. If they don't have them, they may know where they are. Donna >From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> >Reply-To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCCHARLE] CHRIST CHURCH records >Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 13:09:46 -0400 > >Donna, what can I look for on your behalf when I locate such records of >Christ Church? Anyone else, give me your names, too, and though I can't >promise miracles, I can be on the lookout. > >I am grateful for the information, and hope you'll forgive my horrible >manners in the last message where I neglected to thank you sufficiently. > >Elizabeth > >Donna Howland wrote: > > > > If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner >of > > Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church >in > > Charleston - > > >==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== >Another 'MUST' for South Carolina genealogical research >South Carolina Department of Archives and History >http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Donna, what can I look for on your behalf when I locate such records of Christ Church? Anyone else, give me your names, too, and though I can't promise miracles, I can be on the lookout. I am grateful for the information, and hope you'll forgive my horrible manners in the last message where I neglected to thank you sufficiently. Elizabeth Donna Howland wrote: > > If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of > Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in > Charleston -

To be honest, I don't know which/what Christ Church, except that I have several records of my families prior to 1800 saying "Christ Church Parish", so whatever church building[s] served the parish prior to 1800 would be what I'm interested in; ditto, membership records. Do Episcopalian records follow the individual parish church--and is St. Peter's now the jurisdiction where Christ Church Parish once was? I rather imagine the Parish back then was much larger than current parishes, at least geographically, so I'm not certain where I should look for church records. Could the custom in 1765 have been to say "of Christ Church Parish" when in fact the person mentioned lived within the Parish but attended some other church? I get confused when speaking of old political/geographical boundaries in liturgical terms. At any rate, I suspect that my ancestors were indeed Anglican/Church of England [what is the difference?] before the American Revolution, and mostly Methodist afterward. So I'll go looking for Christ Church Records wherever I can. Please pardon the ignorance of this ol' Methodist... Elizabeth Donna Howland wrote: > > If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of > Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in > Charleston - I recently had reason to inquire and was told that's where they > were - and what I needed was there. > > Donna > > >From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> > >Reply-To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com > >To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [SCCHARLE] CHRIST CHURCH, St. Philips, St. Thomas, St. James Goose > >Creek, Bethel > >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:09:34 -0500 > > > >Now if JOHN CARNE and MARY HUTCHINSON were married in 1765, and he was > >from Charleston [with a brother definitely at St. Philips], and she was > >listed in their prenuptial agreement as being from Christ Church Parish, > >and if he was known to have worked in Charleston--where would I most > >likely find them? So far, I have found neither a marriage nor a burial > >record for them in a church record--or anywhere else, for that matter, > >except the prenup. > > > >Their daughter, ANN CLARKSON CARNE, married PETER DUBOIS--somewhere--16 > >March 1797 [family records]. PETER DUBOIS was baptised in St. > >Thomas/St. Denis; and he was listed in his father, PETER DUBOIS,' > >household for the 1790 census in St. James, Goose Creek. This couple > >was in Charleston from at least 1798 when their oldest was born until > >the late 1830s, and were said to have attended Bethel Methodist as a > >young couple. > > > >Now as I understand it, Bethel would be "Old Bethel" Methodist church, > >which is the building now relocated to 222 Calhoun Street and has had > >Black congregants since a schism back in the 1830s--by which time my > >ancestors had moved on to Alabama. > > > >Old Bethel was originally built on the site now occupied by Bethel > >Methodist church at 57 Pitt Street. But this current building at this > >site was built well after the departure of my ancestors, so... > > > >...if I want to worship at a church where my ancestors actually sat, how > >about St. James Goose Creek, or St. Thomas or St. Denis, or Christ > >Church? Are any of these original to prior to 1800 and currently having > >services? How about Strawberry Chapel? How about Cumberland Methodist > >Church--where my gggrandfather visited in 1821, coming back to > >Charleston as a homesick 23-year-old from the wilds of Alabama? > > > >The Huguenot church--the focus of my fellow researchers on this upcoming > >trip--was built in 1845 at a time when my ancestors had not been > >Huguenots in decades, and my DUBOIS ancestors had long since left the > >state. > > > >Maybe my best shot at finding something connected to my ancestors will > >be standing on the grounds of these sites with old drawings or pictures > >of moved buildings and imagining my best... > > > >Elizabeth DuBois Russo > > > > > >==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > >Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > >South Carolina Historical Society > >http://www.schistory.org > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > South Carolina Historical Society > http://www.schistory.org

Pat, the land I'm looking for would probably have been in the hands of Frances [Jaudon?] Juin Pagett when she married Francis Pagett around 1700, or more than 100 years prior to the date you have. At the very least, the lands known as "Pagetts Old Field" and "Jaudon's Plantation" were known as such by 1763 when JOHN DUBOIS, who married SARAH JANE MOUZON on 16 Nov. 1758 was buried there. His brother JAMES DUBOIS, who married HESTER [ESTHER] GUERIN 11 Dec. 1760 was buried there 25 January 1772. So, we'd need to know if the land you speak of was in JAUDON or PAGETT hands between 1700 and 1772. Let me know if the plat map shows anything promising. Thank you so much for your continued help [and enthusiasm], Elizabeth Patricia Kruger wrote: > So, where is this John Jaudon land? Well, it's the same land I referenced > as bordering Glebe land. Here is the citation: > > Release and conveyance in fee simple from Oswell Eve, esq. to John Jaudon. > Book 0-7, pp 211-212. Charleston Co, SC Deed Book. 16 March 1805. > > Oswell Eve, formerly of the parish of St. Thomas and Saint Denis in the > state of SC, but now of the State of GA, Esq, for the sum of 841 pounds > thirteen shillings and four pence paid or secured to be paid by John Jaudon > of the parish of Saint John's Berkeley County in state of SC. grant, > bargain, sell.... all that plantation or tract of land represented by the > plat hereunto annexed containing 966 acres and 4/10 of an acre and butted > and known by the name MIddleton (no, this is not THE MIddleton on the Ashley > River) in the parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis. The northeast boundary > land is Mr. Bourdesseaux, partly on land of Mr. Gordon and partly on land of > Mr. Guerin;. North bounds on the Glebe land, partly on land of Mr. > Bocket/Becket and partly on land of the late Rev. D. Smith. To the > Southwest on land of John Syme and Southeast on land formerly of Brian Cape. > Signed 16 Mar 1805 by John Jaudon. Witness; John S. Adams (probably John > Strong Adams, son in law of Oswell Eve) and William Adams. Mortage > overwritten by John S. Adams as agent for Oswell Eve on 6 Nov. 1810 > (Note: several of these names are very hard to read on a poor microfilm > copy, so look for spelling options) > > I think I have a plat copy of this around here somewhere and if I can put my > hands on it, I"ll scan it and e-mail it to you. > > Now, obviously, Jaudon also likely owned land in St. John's Berkeley County > (not the same Berkeley county that you will find today) Pat > > I'm not sure if this helps or not, but at least we know the Glebe land was > on the north of it. I think this is the same piece of land that Oswell Eve > got from John (through his father Stephen) Miller which at that time was > called Hampton Plantation (No, not THE Hampton Plantation of Georgetown > fame).That deed only said the 'land known as Hampton Plantation' and was > smaller than the 966 acres OE sold to John Jaudon, but he might have added > some in the intervening 30 years. > > And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> > To: <SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: [SCCHARLE] City books > > > Amazon.com lists this book as 29.95, available through special order. > > What it does not say is what is covered in the book. I'd like to know > > how much info it has about places before their glory days--before the > > American Revolution, for example. So many of these places changed hands > > enough that by the Civil War a places called The Smith Plantation could > > have been a combination of The Jones Plantation, the Brown Plantation, > > and a bit of the White Plantation, too. > > > > Bill, would you mind a couple of lookups? > > > > 1. The Brabant Plantation. I believe that in its earliest European > > settler permutations it had lands owned by Francis Pagett, Lewis Juin, > > Walter Dallas, and Bishop Robert Smith. All of these folks married > > DUBOIS' directly or their descendants, and I have a hunch these lands > > were close to, or contained some of my JOHN DUBOIS' original lands. > > Does your book go into this? > > > > 2. The Annals of St. Thomas/St. Denis book spoken of previously has > > burials for some of the DUBOIS descendants as being on "Jaudon's > > Plantation." No one seems to know exactly where that was. My theory > > coincides with a very brief Huguenot Transactions mention that this > > "plantation" was a part of PAGETT/PADGETT/PAGET lands. Which might make > > it a part of the Brabant Plantation. Any mention of the "Jaudon > > Plantation" in your book? > > > > If I can trace DuBois lands to either, I can FINALLY go to a place an > > ancestor really was. And quit bugging everyone, for crying out loud... > > > > Oh, perish that thought. :>] > > > > Elizabeth > > > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > South Carolina Historical Society > http://www.schistory.org

HI Bill, Would you check your book for me and see if you have any listings for George Haig or Hezekiah Maham around the same time as Elizabeths ancestors. She and I seem to be looking in the same area for our relatives and mine have shown up in the some of the books she had suggested. I would appreciae it Betty

Bill, Could you check on a Rebecca Dutart(Dutarque) Thanks.If there is anything I would love to have a copy. Would pay postage etc. Please contact me at Jean Faulk crckrsuze@aol.com

In a message dated 04/01/2000 12:31:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, elizabethrusso@home.com writes: << Robert F. Clute, The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974). I have used this book while at the DAR library in DC, The Library of Congress in DC, and the Huguenot Library in New Paltz, NY. For such a small book, it has given invaluable information to SC Huguenot researchers lucky enough to have ancestors who were in the Parish from the 1680s to the 1880s. Amazon. com lists this book as out of print. >> Greetings from SC. I have a copy of the original version (not the reprint) & would be happy to check a couple of names for you. URQ

Does anyone have any information in regards to Good Hope Plantation ? Robert Axson, owned a small plantation of 480 acres called Good Hope in the St John's Berkeley area, he bought the plantation from Janet Purkey in feb, 1834. I am searching for info as to what happpen to Good Hope.

Elizabeth - You won't believe this one. I can tell you where John Jaudon's plantation was .... sort of. You see, my ancestor, Oswell Eve, sold land to John Jaudon and I have copies of the deeds. (This is a different Oswell Eve (likely a grandson) from the one I mentioned to you in an earlier e-mail message). So, where is this John Jaudon land? Well, it's the same land I referenced as bordering Glebe land. Here is the citation: Release and conveyance in fee simple from Oswell Eve, esq. to John Jaudon. Book 0-7, pp 211-212. Charleston Co, SC Deed Book. 16 March 1805. Oswell Eve, formerly of the parish of St. Thomas and Saint Denis in the state of SC, but now of the State of GA, Esq, for the sum of 841 pounds thirteen shillings and four pence paid or secured to be paid by John Jaudon of the parish of Saint John's Berkeley County in state of SC. grant, bargain, sell.... all that plantation or tract of land represented by the plat hereunto annexed containing 966 acres and 4/10 of an acre and butted and known by the name MIddleton (no, this is not THE MIddleton on the Ashley River) in the parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis. The northeast boundary land is Mr. Bourdesseaux, partly on land of Mr. Gordon and partly on land of Mr. Guerin;. North bounds on the Glebe land, partly on land of Mr. Bocket/Becket and partly on land of the late Rev. D. Smith. To the Southwest on land of John Syme and Southeast on land formerly of Brian Cape. Signed 16 Mar 1805 by John Jaudon. Witness; John S. Adams (probably John Strong Adams, son in law of Oswell Eve) and William Adams. Mortage overwritten by John S. Adams as agent for Oswell Eve on 6 Nov. 1810 (Note: several of these names are very hard to read on a poor microfilm copy, so look for spelling options) I think I have a plat copy of this around here somewhere and if I can put my hands on it, I"ll scan it and e-mail it to you. Now, obviously, Jaudon also likely owned land in St. John's Berkeley County (not the same Berkeley county that you will find today) Pat I'm not sure if this helps or not, but at least we know the Glebe land was on the north of it. I think this is the same piece of land that Oswell Eve got from John (through his father Stephen) Miller which at that time was called Hampton Plantation (No, not THE Hampton Plantation of Georgetown fame).That deed only said the 'land known as Hampton Plantation' and was smaller than the 966 acres OE sold to John Jaudon, but he might have added some in the intervening 30 years. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> To: <SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [SCCHARLE] City books > Amazon.com lists this book as 29.95, available through special order. > What it does not say is what is covered in the book. I'd like to know > how much info it has about places before their glory days--before the > American Revolution, for example. So many of these places changed hands > enough that by the Civil War a places called The Smith Plantation could > have been a combination of The Jones Plantation, the Brown Plantation, > and a bit of the White Plantation, too. > > Bill, would you mind a couple of lookups? > > 1. The Brabant Plantation. I believe that in its earliest European > settler permutations it had lands owned by Francis Pagett, Lewis Juin, > Walter Dallas, and Bishop Robert Smith. All of these folks married > DUBOIS' directly or their descendants, and I have a hunch these lands > were close to, or contained some of my JOHN DUBOIS' original lands. > Does your book go into this? > > 2. The Annals of St. Thomas/St. Denis book spoken of previously has > burials for some of the DUBOIS descendants as being on "Jaudon's > Plantation." No one seems to know exactly where that was. My theory > coincides with a very brief Huguenot Transactions mention that this > "plantation" was a part of PAGETT/PADGETT/PAGET lands. Which might make > it a part of the Brabant Plantation. Any mention of the "Jaudon > Plantation" in your book? > > If I can trace DuBois lands to either, I can FINALLY go to a place an > ancestor really was. And quit bugging everyone, for crying out loud... > > Oh, perish that thought. :>] > > Elizabeth >

Rsroon@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone on the list know what sort of records are available from the > Catholic Diocese of Charleston? BOOK LINKS: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA RECORDS & ROMAN CATHOLICS by Brent H. Holcomb <scmar@juno.com> Cities tend to have more records and more kinds of records than counties or other divisions. For example, the city of Charleston began keeping records of deaths in the year 1819. The earliest Roman Catholic Church in the Carolinas or Georgia was St. Mary's in Charleston, established in 1789. There has been a considerable Catholic community there since that time. A new title has been published concerning death records on this group of people. ROMAN CATHOLIC DEATHS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 1800-1860, by Susan S. King. Hardcover, 330 pages, alphabetically arranged. $43 postpaid. Order from SCMAR, PO Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221. These records were compiled from the following sources: St. Mary of the Annunciation Interment Records 1801-1859, St. Lawrence Cemetery Register 1852-1877, St. Patrick's Burial Ground Records, Death Records of the City of Charleston 1819-1859, Correspondence of Bishop Ignatius Reynolds 1854, and The United States Catholic Miscellany 1822- 1859. Many entries carry additional information such as "native of Ireland," "son or daughter of," "wife or widow of," etc. So few records have been published concerning Roman Catholics in South Carolina that this volume is a boon to researchers and a welcome addition to the bibliography of source materials available for research on Catholics. Previously published by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Missing Links, Vol. 5, No. 13, 29 March 2000 (April Fool's Day Edition). RootsWeb: <http://www.rootsweb.com/>

This might help. http://www.catholic-doc.org This is the website for the Roman Catholic Diocese of SC. There is an Archives page with information on their holdings and research information. Mary Giles is the archivist and I believe her e-mail address is on this page. You should have no trouble getting the records of someone married in the Cathedral c. 1870. I have been able to find records of my family in the very early 1800s as well as been able to go through original record books of some of the Roman Catholic churches in Charleston. linda mhoose@sc.rr.com

If you are referring to the Christ Church that used to be at the corner of Rutledge/Sumter - those records are now at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Charleston - I recently had reason to inquire and was told that's where they were - and what I needed was there. Donna >From: Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> >Reply-To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >To: SCCHARLE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCCHARLE] CHRIST CHURCH, St. Philips, St. Thomas, St. James Goose >Creek, Bethel >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:09:34 -0500 > >Now if JOHN CARNE and MARY HUTCHINSON were married in 1765, and he was >from Charleston [with a brother definitely at St. Philips], and she was >listed in their prenuptial agreement as being from Christ Church Parish, >and if he was known to have worked in Charleston--where would I most >likely find them? So far, I have found neither a marriage nor a burial >record for them in a church record--or anywhere else, for that matter, >except the prenup. > >Their daughter, ANN CLARKSON CARNE, married PETER DUBOIS--somewhere--16 >March 1797 [family records]. PETER DUBOIS was baptised in St. >Thomas/St. Denis; and he was listed in his father, PETER DUBOIS,' >household for the 1790 census in St. James, Goose Creek. This couple >was in Charleston from at least 1798 when their oldest was born until >the late 1830s, and were said to have attended Bethel Methodist as a >young couple. > >Now as I understand it, Bethel would be "Old Bethel" Methodist church, >which is the building now relocated to 222 Calhoun Street and has had >Black congregants since a schism back in the 1830s--by which time my >ancestors had moved on to Alabama. > >Old Bethel was originally built on the site now occupied by Bethel >Methodist church at 57 Pitt Street. But this current building at this >site was built well after the departure of my ancestors, so... > >...if I want to worship at a church where my ancestors actually sat, how >about St. James Goose Creek, or St. Thomas or St. Denis, or Christ >Church? Are any of these original to prior to 1800 and currently having >services? How about Strawberry Chapel? How about Cumberland Methodist >Church--where my gggrandfather visited in 1821, coming back to >Charleston as a homesick 23-year-old from the wilds of Alabama? > >The Huguenot church--the focus of my fellow researchers on this upcoming >trip--was built in 1845 at a time when my ancestors had not been >Huguenots in decades, and my DUBOIS ancestors had long since left the >state. > >Maybe my best shot at finding something connected to my ancestors will >be standing on the grounds of these sites with old drawings or pictures >of moved buildings and imagining my best... > >Elizabeth DuBois Russo > > >==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== >Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families >South Carolina Historical Society >http://www.schistory.org > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Does anyone on the list know what sort of records are available from the Catholic Diocese of Charleston? My wife's great grandparents were married at the Cathedral in Charleston on May 1, 1870. They were Captain John Ciucevich and Julia Ann Merritt. We have no further information on Julia Ann other than she was supposed to have been born in Charlotte, NC in 1856. They sure married young back then. Any info on Catholic marriage records would be greatly appreciated. On another note for those of you visiting Charleston. The Historic Charleston Foundation is in the process of renovating The Missroon House for use as a museum and their new headquarters. My family had a tour for our reunion last summer. If the foundation has any portion of it open to the public now the view of the harbor and battery from the third floor were great. The tour of the Nathaniel Russell home and gardens were also great. A word of caution on visiting St. Michael's and St. Phillips graveyards. We had trouble getting in on some weekend afternoons so check on times when you get there. Robert Missroon Rsroon@aol.com

Amazon.com lists this book as 29.95, available through special order. What it does not say is what is covered in the book. I'd like to know how much info it has about places before their glory days--before the American Revolution, for example. So many of these places changed hands enough that by the Civil War a places called The Smith Plantation could have been a combination of The Jones Plantation, the Brown Plantation, and a bit of the White Plantation, too. Bill, would you mind a couple of lookups? 1. The Brabant Plantation. I believe that in its earliest European settler permutations it had lands owned by Francis Pagett, Lewis Juin, Walter Dallas, and Bishop Robert Smith. All of these folks married DUBOIS' directly or their descendants, and I have a hunch these lands were close to, or contained some of my JOHN DUBOIS' original lands. Does your book go into this? 2. The Annals of St. Thomas/St. Denis book spoken of previously has burials for some of the DUBOIS descendants as being on "Jaudon's Plantation." No one seems to know exactly where that was. My theory coincides with a very brief Huguenot Transactions mention that this "plantation" was a part of PAGETT/PADGETT/PAGET lands. Which might make it a part of the Brabant Plantation. Any mention of the "Jaudon Plantation" in your book? If I can trace DuBois lands to either, I can FINALLY go to a place an ancestor really was. And quit bugging everyone, for crying out loud... Oh, perish that thought. :>] Elizabeth Bill wrote: > > Elizabeth, > > It is amazing how many books can be purchased through Amazon.com at discounted prices. A neighbor of mine who recently went to Charleston turned me on to "Plantations of the Low Country" by Agnus Baldwin (no relation) which contains information about many plantations around Charleston from 1697 - 1845. Ironically the book contains some important references to my research on the HUME family.

Robert F. Clute, The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974). I have used this book while at the DAR library in DC, The Library of Congress in DC, and the Huguenot Library in New Paltz, NY. For such a small book, it has given invaluable information to SC Huguenot researchers lucky enough to have ancestors who were in the Parish from the 1680s to the 1880s. Amazon. com lists this book as out of print. I just keep copying pages each time I'm at one of these libraries [I'd be surprised to find the book around here in CT], and probably have most of the book in various files by now... but not in a way I can do lookups, unfortunately. Elizabeth Bill Nell wrote: > > Mary; > Where can I get a copy of that "St. Thomas Parish Register" that you > mention? > Bill > > Maryd0318@aol.com wrote: > > > > Elizabeth...if you visit St. Thomas....be sure to check out the > > cemetery....see if there is a tombstone for Mary Ann Saunders...she was one > > of William Henry Mouzon's daughters (Ann's sister) and is listed inthe Parish > > register as being buried there. > > > > You probably will want to check out Strawberrry Chapel....The Ball Family in > > your lines are buried their. If you want i can send you a posting of their > > tombstones before you go on the trip. > > > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > > Lots of holdings on Charleston County Families > > South Carolina Historical Society > > http://www.schistory.org > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > Another 'MUST' for South Carolina genealogical research > South Carolina Department of Archives and History > http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/

In a message dated 4/1/0 3:46:33 PM, balgroup@gte.net writes: << "Plantations of th >> Hi Bill, Was the book " Plantation of the Low Countries" from Amazon.com expensive? I had bought the one about low country from Monck's Corner Museum called Historic Ramblings through Berkley with the name of several Balls in it . Does yours have anything on George Haig , or Col. Hezekiah Maham? If good information on it , then I would want to try and buy it. Betty

Thank you ,Pat I have printed this out and saved it with other advice from all you good people out there. You are all great!!!! Love Betty

I have recently found that some of the members in one line of my ancestors were buried in St. Laurence (or maybe St. Lawence) cemetery in Charleston. I have not been able to find where the cemetery is (or was) or if any burial records still exists. Does anyone know which church or denomination this cemetery was associated with? This line of ancestors has been the absolutely most difficult for me to trace, and I am hoping that the cemetery records may provide some clues. I found out about the St. Laurence connection from the Charleston County Library deaths index file. The time period that is most relevant for me in this search is the 1860's to 1900's. Thanks for any advice and information. Hank Theiling Charleston, SC