Deborah, Thank you. The piece of the puzzle is there. It is finding it. If you do run into something, let me know. I have a hunch that Dorcas' baptismal name is not the same. If you do run into a female Bryd who you cannot track, let me know. Jim At 06:41 PM 01/24/2000 -0700, you wrote: >James, I don't know of any byrds who moved from Sumter to AL. The >Sumter County Byrds moved first to the Pearl River Area of MS. Part >of the Byrd family from NC moved to AL. Redden Byrd of Dale county AL >is from teh Lenoir County NC family of Bright Byrd. I haven't found a >Dorcas Byrd yet amoung the Byrds of Sumter District. I have not >tracked the NC Byrds past the time they moved into SC around 1767 when >William Byrd and at least four of his sons moved into Sumter, >William, John, George, and Sutton. I have been able to locate the >names of Sutton's children and one of George's sons. There are many >more Byrd's running around the three Rivers area of Darlington, Sumter >and Williamsburg, and I haven't tied most of them to William's sons. >I know that he had more children. One son Edward stayed in Bladen >county NC. > >Deborah Byrd > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >To unsubcribe from the SCSumter mailing list send a one word message, >unsubscribe to: >SCSumter-L-Request@rootsweb >If you are subscribed to the Digest mode send your unsubcribe message to: >SCSumter-D-request@rootsweb.com