Bill, At 06:12 PM 12/5/05, you wrote: >Does anyone have a William H. Whitney in their line. Born about 1841 in >Gardner, Massachusetts, married about 1867 to Mary Ella Unknown who was born >July 1850 in Portland, Maine. They had a child William Alexander Whitney, >born 4 Jan. 1870 in Gardner, Massachusetts and married Fanny Young. Is >William a descendant of John or Henry and who were his parents ? Pierce lists this William H. WHITNEY here: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/pierce/p606-610.htm#P7263 He was son of Luke and Mary (PIERCE) WHITNEY, and his lineage was William H.-9 [Luke-8, Luke-7, William-6, William-5, William-4, Nathaniel-3, John-2, John-1]. His birth seems not to have been recorded in the vital records of Gardner, but the birth records of his children Nellie F. and William Alexander both give his birthplace as Gardner. His marriage seems not to have been recorded in the vital records of Massachusetts through 1910. Apparently he was still living in 1895. I have not found his death record. If we did, we could perhaps confirm what Pierce says. The 1880 Census caught him in Chelsea: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/census/1880/extracts/ma.htm#599 City directories for Chelsea record his residence there in 1890 and 1892: http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/directories/ma/chelsea.html Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward rlward AT whitneygen DOT org http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html