This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: johnnygstarke Surnames: BROWN BRUCE STARKE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/4520.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am a distant descendant of one Brown family of Culpeper county, namely Mary Bruce Brown, the daughter of Gideon Brown, who was the son of John Brown. In about 1730 that John Brown and his young wife (nee Miss Evans) left North Wales and settled in Essex county VA. During the second wave of immigration from that section to the Mountains, they settled in Culpeper county on Thornton's River above Oak Shade. They had five sons (viz. Thomas, Evans, Gideon, James and John. The branches of this Brown family settled along Thornton's River from Oak Shade to Homeland, as well as the area down southwest from Reva to Brown's Store / Bethel Baptist Church vicinity. Are you familiar with this Brown family of Culpeper? I cannot find any connection with your James Brown family of Stevensburg / Lignum vicinity. Do you know of any inter-relationship? I will expand information on my Brown family line, if interested. Finally, my grandfather Starke claimed descendency from the Bruces o! f Scotland thru his grandmother Mary Bruce Brown who married Weedon Starke, of "Cedar Hill" farm near Oak Shade. Does anybody know of such a Brown / Bruce connection in Culpeper, or elsewhere? I see that one Bruce family lived in the Brown's Store / Reva vicinity as well (ie, Bruce's Mountain, and Bruce's Mtn Rd-Rt 636, and an old Bruce graveyard thereabouts). However, I have no Bruce / Brown marriages in my Brown family notes. I am John Starke, great-great grandson of the above mentioned Weedon Starke & Mary Bruce Brown. My Email: johnstarke@comcast.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.