This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shelton, Chilton, Chelton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wNHBAIB/3001 Message Board Post: I would very much like to contact anyone researching the Chilton line which I have back to John Chilton, b. 1614 Maidstone, Kent, England. He married Catherine Heneage b. 1618. I'm most interested in the 7th and 8th generations which are my GGG and GG grandfathers Thomas and Medley Chilton. Medley changed from Chilton to Chelton in the 1860s and his daughter Susan used Shelton as her last name. She was born in 1857 yet received a letter from her father signed Medley Chelton in 1873, but the 1870 census has him as Shelton. So you can understand the difficulty in tracing any family. The children of Medley and his first wife Martha James were, Julius b. 1849, John T. b. 1851, Susan , b. 1857 her mother was Mary Ann Lake, 3rd wife: Kitty (Catherine) Brown children, Mary F. b. 1859, Elizabeth b. 1861, and Amanda J. b. 1866. They were in Woodford and Mercer Counties in Kentucky.