I'd tend to agree with Stephe on playing the odds the individuals named were the couple's offspring. Even so, I have one earlier instance in which a woman gave one of her children to her (far better-off but childless) sister to adopt as her own; the child was known by and used the Van Arnam surname, at least most of the time. It was a different world and these people weren't us. --pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Wood" <stephe.w300@gmail.com> To: <vannorman@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Ana VanArnam married to Cornelius Russell > Hi again! > > Sorry - MY BAD!!! Not enough Sleep! > > I'm confusing my families....... > > My Anna / Hannah comment still holds, but forget what I said about the > will - (I even switched from Isaac to William somehow) > > It was the "U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants 1789 - 1858" at Ancestry that > gave > us this list of children. I'll have to pull my copy of the original and > take > another look at it again.... > > Stephen > > [P.S. - Pete's comment is correct, however I still think it would be more > apt to be the couple's own children named in the petition, especially when > none of them would have been underage when it was written in the 1840's.] > > SW > > Off to bed now, ZZZZZZZZZZZ > > > > > >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Arlene Reeves >> <arkretired@hotmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Where would the will be? >>> >>> > Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 08:25:42 -0400 >>> > From: stephe.w300@gmail.com >>> > To: vannorman@rootsweb.com >>> > Subject: Re: [VANNORMAN] Ana VanArnam married to Cornelius Russell >>> > >>> > Hi! >>> > >>> > My two cents worth... >>> > >>> > I had speculated earlier that I wondered if it could actually read >>> > Maria on the original, if the writing was really poor, but I can also >>> easily >>> > see how Anna could be made from Auria - again with poor writing. I >>> > guess >>> > we'll have to purchase a copy of the will eventually to see what the >>> > original looks like....... >>> > >>> > The only drawback with it being the name Anna is that there is already >>> > a sister Hannah, and "back in the day", those two names could be >>> > interchangeable, and both weren't often used in the same family. [Not >>> > a >>> rule >>> > etched in stone, however.....] >>> > >>> > Stephen >>> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VANNORMAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >