Joyce, >We have a Solomon married to Mary, in 1850 Greenbrier Census. ... >female age 5 >Male age 5 ... >The twins ? names are unreadable. I just respond to these because I like a challenge! I read the 5-yr-olds as Ruthy and Cornelius, in case anybody cares. >We have a Margaret Thomas in Greenbrier 1850 Census age 22 >Husband is John Thomas age 25 >female 3 years >Edward? 1 year >Names are unreadable. The female is Mary F. and the boy is "San'l C." which probably means Samuel C. I see other places where this censustaker wrote "San'l" and probably meant Sam'l, since I've never seen San'l as a name before. Decipheringly yours, Holly ------------------- Holly Cochran Hollyhock Press (publisher of Bath co VA area books) http://id.mind.net/~cochran/hollyhock/ [email protected]