[email protected] wrote June 24, 2000 Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] HAMPSHIRE COUNTY ESTATES, PRE 1800 > Lydia was almost certainly a Radcliff. However, it may have been > the name of her first husband...if she had one. Gary, Lydia Unknown 1721-1798 (per Archibald Thompson Diary) was twenty years of age when my 5th g-grandmother, Mary Elswick was born in 1741. It's unlikely she had been married earlier. She had four children under eight years of age when John Elswick II died abt. 1748-1749. She re-married Jacob Lorton and had two children: Israel, b. Mar 1749, and Rebekah, June 1754. Do you have proof that Lydia was a Radcliff? We've found nothing to document her maiden name. Have you seen this Ratliff file? http://www.netlizard.com/matt2/ratliff.html Thanks, Jemima > > Gary Radcliffe > [email protected] > > ______________________________