This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCloud, McLoud, McLeod Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lEC.2ACE/434.3 Message Board Post: Rick, Well, I have "checked" myself out. Here are a couple of additional items that should be of interest. 1850 Census, Town of White Oak Springs, District No. 5, Lafayette, WI, Page 469, 18 Sep 1850, Household 45: Cornelius McLoud, 44, Day Laborer, PA Mary, 46, VA William S., 16, Farmer, VA Dudley, 9, VA Pauline E., 7, VA Harriet J., 5, VA Elvira V., 2, WI I still cannot figure out where in Wisconsin or elsewhere John O. or mother, Mary, were in 1870. They seem to have disappeared until the 1880 census. But, they are both still in Iowa in 1885. 1885 Iowa State Census, Orient, Adair, IA, Page 363, 15 Apr 1885, Household 107 (all in the same household): Alvira White, 34, Keeping House, WI, Widow Nettie White, 14 Valorous White, 12 Eddie White, 8? Burt White, 8 Mary McCloud, 76, Keeping House, VA, Widow John McCloud, 33, Farming, WI, Married Oscar McCloud, 9 John J. McCloud, 7 Well, here are John and his mother, Mary, in 1885 Orient, IA. But, wife Mary is missing. Really strange. Had they split up by then? Also, son "B." McCloud appears to have died. I have listed the only birthplaces recorded above. I assume that Alvira White must be John's sister Alvira McCloud from the 1860 Wisconsin census. Alvira doesn't appear in the Grant Co., WI marriage records so I assume she married "Mr." White in Iowa. Alvira White had children in 1880, but I can't seem to locate them in Wisconsin or Iowa. As you continue to search, consider McCloud, McLeod, McLoud, etc. as possibilities. Most names were written down the way the person hearing them "thought" they were spelled. Well, hopefully this information helps out in your search. Dave Taft