This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Autry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACI/1627.1 Message Board Post: There's a theory that virtually all Aurty's in the U.S. are descended from Cornelius, who died about during the Revolutionary War period, in North Carolina. At any rate, to the best anyone can figure I am descended from his son Captain John, his son John, Jr., and his son John English. John, Jr. is thought to have had two complete families of children from two marriages, mostly with the same names... including another John. But your John doesn't seem to fit into what I know about any John in that line so it must be in one of the other, collateral, ones... and I would suspect Captain Alexander, because of the middle initial... but actually I know nothing. You should check in and see if you can connect with anybody on the Autry surname list at: AUTRY-L@rootsweb.com Pinckley... sorry, I don't do Pinckley. <G> Richard White Tallahassee, Florida