on 5/30/01 8:01 AM, Margaret Driskill at mdriskill@worldnet.att.net wrote: > When he married in 1822, name: Alex G. YOUNGER, > then this is his name. Especially if you KNOW that the lady he married is > your great grandmother. > > Finding other documents with the name Alexander GORDON, is a different > person entirely. > > Don't be discouraged. Keep looking for your Alex G. YOUNGER. I agree with Margaret's assessment, but, I also have one other possibility, and that is that your Alexander Gordon Younger may have been illegitimate. I have such a case in another family where the man, apparently illegitimate, alternated between his father's name, his mother's name, and sometimes when by both names (as in FIRST NAME, FATHER'S SURNAME, MOTHER'S SURNAME). He ultimately opted for just using his mother's maiden name. (His parents were ultimately married but after he was born). You can imagine this was a difficult problem to figure out. It is possible that signing his name "Younger" meant "Junior" but that is not a very common way to sign documents, escpecially more than once. And usually it would have read Alexander Gordon THE Younger. And Margaret is right that if that was his name on his marriage bond, his name was YOUNGER (at least he was going by that name at that time). Good luck, Craig Kilby