Thanks Craig, I should have cleared that up when I posted. I was in a hurry leaving work and didn't make it clear. As far as Easter..... I was typing the information AS this Gertrude Griffin had done. But you're right we need to type it always correctly in order to get it changed to the proper way. Janean -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Kilby Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Ball research in England Janean, To clarify to our readers, the information you are citing was a document found handwritten in the 1880s in Kentucky. I wouldn't want people to think this came from your research. I agree the Romney/Rogers or maybe something else entirely is up in the air. NOW...I will again be the lone dissenter on the name "Esther" Ball. It was EASTER Ball. That is how she clearly signed her own name to her own will (admittedly, I only have the recorded copy, but the clerk who copied it would have no doubt known her name quite well, considering all the consternation she had with her husband Rawleigh Chinn.) And, she is almost always referred to as EASTER in the records, not ESTHER. But, this has become so rampantly disseminated and repeated for so long I doubt I will ever be able to stamp it out. Frankly, I don't put a lot of stock in Gertrude Chinn Brockenbrough's data, as she was living in Kentucky and writing two centuries after the fact. And her lack of information on others is evident. I am of the opinion she was in correspondence with Rev. Horace Hayden as it was at this time he was writing his book. I don't think she woke up one morning and decided to draw a genogram. Craig On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Janean Ray wrote: > Kathleen FYI..... I just received a copy of a family lineage by a descendant > of the Sarah Yates and John Chinn line and not too far down the line > either.... Who wrote Col Joseph Ball b. May 25, 1649 m. 1st Miss Rogers - > then widow Mary Johnson > > Anyway... Here is the line AS WRITTEN BY GERTRUDE CHINN BROCKENBROUGH ca 1888 BEGIN QUOTE: > > Esther Ball 1706 Raleigh Chinn > Elizabeth Ball (1) Wife Unknown by me..... 1727............ Joseph Chinn > Sarah Yates................ 1765............. John Chinn of Lancaster b. > 1739 > Joseph Chinn son of above............. John Yates........ Son of above > Married > Elizabeth Griffin > Whose mother was Judith Ball > Issue > John Leroy and Jos. Wm. > (descendant-living) (my father) > married Marianna Smith of Mortico Hall > > ISSUE > > Gertrude Griffin............................. J.W. Chinn born 1836 > who married Ro. S. Hipkins married in 1860 > Gabriella Brockenbrough END QUOTE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message