This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZCC.2ACE/979.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kathy, Thanks for the info. You're right about the 1880 census. I had seen a transcript of it that listed the names and dates, but I had not viewed the actual return to get the relationships. This helps clear my confusion about John William (or William John). I knew he lived with the family so was related somehow, but there was a large gap in age between him and the youngest child listed on the 1850 Pulaski Co., VA census. Too, Susan would have been 46 when he was born, which isn't impossible, but causes one to question if he really was her son. I had hypothesized that he could have been the illegitimate son of one of the older daughters, and this now indeed appears to be the case. The frustrating thing about this family and those census records is how much their ages bounce around. There aren't any two censuses that are consistent. So have you traced your Cookseys further back than Lawrence Co. KY? I have a Cecil family who was a first cousin to this Peck family who moved to Lawrence Co. KY from Tazewell Co. VA prior to 1860. Did your Cookseys also come from southwest VA? Thanks again and happy hunting, Mark