This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HAC.2ACE/67.165 Message Board Post: Your post shows that the father of the Stephen Davidson who married Lucy Neighbours was John Davidson. My research shows that John certainly COULD have been his father, but I was curious what documentation you have found on who his father was. Stephen and Lucy eventually moved to KY, and the 1850 Ohio Co., KY census shows Stephen as having been born in Georgia! Do you think that is a mistake or could that somehow be correct? John Davidson was probably John Benning Davidson, the son of Charles Davidson and the grandson of Edward Davidson (who moved from Buckingham to Bedford/Campbell Co., VA around 1780 or so). Charles stayed behind in Buckingham, and he and John then showed on the 1789 tax list in Cumberland Co., VA. A John Davidson then patented some land in back in Buckingham in the 1790s, and a John Davidson appeared on the 1810 Buckingham census. By 1810, Stephen had probably moved out of his parents home (since he was married in 1808), and sure enough, a Stephen Davidson of the correct age range also appeared on the 1810 Buckingham census (as did the older Stephen Davidson in this overall Davidson family; the older Stephen was the son of David Davidson (likely brother of Edward), and this older Stephen was born in Cumberland Co., VA in the 1750s and died in Buckingham in the 1830s). I suspect that the Stephen Davidson who was on the 1830 Campbell Co., VA census was the one who married Lucy Neighbours (but I have no hard proof of that). I don't know where he was in 1840, but by 1850, he was in KY, as stated above. Any/all comments on Stephen's father and/or why that census shows that he was from GA would be greatly appreciated. There were a couple of other (apparently unrelated) Davidson families in the Bedford/Campbell area, starting the mid-late 1700s (including a father/son pair of John Davidsons in the early 1800s), so it is hard to tell if any of the John Davidsons there in 1830 or so included the father of Stephen. There was a John Davidson on the 1820 Buckingham census, but he is shown as being younger than the one who was on the 1810 census. I do not know if that is a census mistake or if these were really two different John Davidsons. Thanks, Bill Davidson