Hello Norma, Thanks for getting in touch! Mobley is actually a more common name than one would think! It ranked 1142 out of the 88799 surnames that were tabulated in the 1990 U. S. census. Moberly ranked 10185. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html There were quite a few Mobley families living in SC at an early date. My particular branch left for KY in 1807. You might be interested in joining the Rootsweb Mobley Family Group: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mobley/ Carol --- Norma852Wr@aol.com wrote: > Carol, I'm intruding here just from curiosity. I'm > not following the > Mobley/Moberly > name. HOWEVER - it is an uncommon name - AND they > were in S. Carolina, > original home of my GORMAN family. To the point: > Jane Mobley/Moberley was married sometime around > the early 1830s, I think > to my distant uncle, Churchwell GORMAN (1811-1869). > . Churchwell GORMAN was brother to my > gr-gr-grandfather, > James GORMAN (1810-1878). > They moved together from Georgia to Barbour Co., > Alabama, then in abt 1841, > to the Republic of Texas. Jane and > Churchwell/Churchill GORMAN reared > several children, with whose descendants I have > been in contact. > Does this have any relevance to your > Mobley/Moberleys? Seems there was a > James Mobley living in their household in Texas in > about 1860. > Norma (Gorman) Wright > > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:49:57 -0700 (PDT) > From: Carol Lucian <clkonfetti@yahoo.com> > To: TNLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <20050414184957.91248.qmail@web50309.mail.yahoo.com> > Subject: Elijah McClure > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello Bill, > > Just out of curiosity, was your Elijah McClure > associated with McClure's branch of Beaver Creek > off > Broad River in Fairfield District, South Carolina? > My > ancestor, Isaiah Mobley (Moberly) owned land there. > He > named one of his children "Elijah". A common name > back > then, so it's probably just a coincidence. > > Carol > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com