To Paul, Zou Feagin, Ed Hamblin and Karen Wood, A big Thank You for your responses to my stolen child story....I joined the Cape Fear Scots List and someone sent me the marriage record for William D. Griggs and Martha Dailey: 1822 in Rockingham County NC. Their adopted daughter(?) was born in 1828. She seems to be the oldest child in their family. How she would have gotten to the Rockingham/Pittsylvania area from perhaps the Port of Wilmington will be my next search. Can anyone tell me what kind of name Dailey is? Is it English, Irish or Scottish? Also, for Nita: What was the name of the family that owned the plantation Merry Oaks? All of my father's ancestors came from Brunswick Co. I am researching the names Branch, Newsom, Heartwell, Lucy, Huff, Goodrum, Parham, Hardaway in Brunswick. Janice Branch Fox