This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/9923.1.1 Message Board Post: Liz Thanks so much for the lookup. My Robert could be either of those -- or neither one. (I've learned to take the ages listed in a census with a very large grain of salt!) This has been such a hard family to trace. Robert and Jane's 1854 marriage bann was read in Barony. He is "of Calton" according to the bann. In the 1861 census Robert and Jane are living in Bridgeton and Robert's birthplace is listed as Glasgow. He could be in any of those places - or none. Or the name could be misspelled. The surname is spelled WADDEL in the 1861 census and WODELL in the 1870 U.S. Census (took me years to find him with that spelling!). Again, thanks so much for your time. It is greatly appreciated. Lisa