This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Laval & Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/394.2091 Message Board Post: This is strange, for my maiden name is Williams, but I don't see any Leonard in my family charts. I am descended from Capt. Charles Williams born 1762 in Mecklenberg Co, Virginia or perhaps NC, who married Miss MacRae, Elizabeth McCottry, and Anne Chandler Patterson, and died in 1838 in York District, SC. His son, Dr. Charles Williams was born in 1807 and married Jane Margaret Craig (?) and Mary Elizabeth Laval. He was a Civil War doctor who died in Mar 1863 - probably of disease. I have an Olivia Vosmil (Vosmil?) Williams who was born in 1853 and died in 1903. I don't show any marriage. Maybe she was a favorite aunt of your Olivia. Do you find us in your charts? My Williams information is very sketchy, being such a common name and my ancestors' choice of common first names (unlike my parents!) You won't even believe all the info I have on the Laval family. I have traced it back to a brother-in-law of Charlemagne!