Dan & Iva Holder, As seen below in your message, you have STEELE as another surname; presumably a connection to your TEMPLETONs in some way. STEELE is not the most common surname in the world and you may have noticed that 'my' TEMPLETONs have used it as a middle name. This has been the case for several of the family. There are Hester Steele TEMPLETON, Matthew Steele TEMPLETON (3 of) and Daniel Steele TEMPLETON. The earliest was a Matthew Steele TEMPLETON being born about 1766 to William TEMPLETON, so there was probably a ? STEELE married to a TEMPLETON some time before this date. Perhaps you have the source of this name STEELE. Are you able to give more information about the STEELE and TEMPLETON connection? The above William was married to a Margaret. Was she Margaret Steele? She would have been born 1730-40. As for the religious affiliations of 'my' branch, since they lived in Belfast and nearby places in Ulster, it is very probable that they were protestant. This may be linked to Scottish protestants. Gerald Johnson Fox At 20:54 02/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, Just thought I'd throw in that my Templeton's were said to have been from >Scotland, Ireland and then in PA around 1700's before moving southward to NC. >They were among the first settlers of the western part of the state...John, >James, David, George, Samuel, etc. were among many of the first names. I can >trace them back to 1748 in NC but find nothing in PA except for references to >them in a book called Carolina Cradle by Ramsey. I have hired researchers in PA >to do research on ANY Templeton surname and have a little on the group there. My >Templeton's were Presbyterian...Other surnames among my group were Steele, >Gracey, Blackwelder, McLean, Gray.