This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Trent, Burton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3372.1 Message Board Post: Assuming that their pension ages were correct--and they are often wrong--Jane Burton was 27 when she married Alexander Trent. Given her age, it seems likely that she may have been married before. Samuel Trent used the name Samuel Burton off and on from about 1818 onward. Those Trents living next to Samuel Trent and family in 1850--Jesse Trent and family, Wiley Trent and family, William Trent and family--changed their names to Burton by 1860. So, it seems possible that Samuel Trent/Burton and Jane Burton Trent were closely related. It fits with the pattern of witnesses in most pension files--they tended to be close relatives even when they didn't say so. James Trent, who is reported to have also gone by the name Burton, indicated that he was the uncle of William Trent/Burton. William Trent/Burton may have been the son of Samuel Trent/Burton--at least he appears to have been living with Samuel Trent in 1830. Given all of the evidence, it seems that Samuel Trent and James Trent shared the same mother--perhaps Jane or Charity Burton. I don't think that the jury is in on it yet.