This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/801.814.819.1 Message Board Post: Hi Lois....... In your December 2000 posting you indicate your John and Morris BAKER families were in Brooke County, WV at one time. You indicated that you suspect that the line goes back to Maurice & Christian (Grafton) Baker and to Charles & Hannah (Hawkins) Baker in Maryland (Harford County, I presume). I have a detailed genealogy of Grafton Baker (see website below) who I believe was in Ohio County (originally) / Brooke County (later), VA (now WV) ca. 1800 / 1810 according to tax lists. He removed from there to Harrison Twp Stark Co, OH which later became Brown Twp Carroll Co, OH in 1834. Ca. 1835 he removed to Hancock Co, OH. I have the same suspicion as you, that Grafton's line goes back to Maurice & Christian (Grafton) Baker and to Charles & Hannah (Hawkins) Baker in Maryland, but do not have any concrete proof. However, independent of my research, a descendant of Grafton Baker's (now living in Hancock Co., OH) did tell me (without prompting!) that his undocumented family history tells of Grafton's descendancy from Charles & Hannah (Hawkins) Baker in Maryland. Have you ever come across the name Grafton Baker in your Brooke County, WV research and in what context? Please reply to engineer9@aol.com. Regards, Gary L. Franks Perrysburg, OH Website: http://www.hometown.aol.com/engineer9/index.html