This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hobday, Widmyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FEC.2ACE/1003.1 Message Board Post: A marriage fraktur exists somewhere in the hands of a private collector and done abt 1821 for William and Christena Widmyer Hobday. The information obtained from this document show their marriage on Mar 20 1803. Williams birthdate is shown jan 06 178(illegible) Christena Widmyer as May 5 1775. The Fraktur Artist is only known as the Virginia Record Book Maker (as his identity is not known)but his work was generally bound into books for different families in the Berkeley and Morgan County Areas, many of the childrens birth dates, sometimes death dates would be recorded and often accompanied by a page of Fraktur Art such as Birds and Flowers. The Hobday family lists at least 5 girls, and an Abraham all born before 1821. William jr is not mentioned but not all pages were present in the book when it was viewed The source was MESDA May 1981Vol 7 Number 1 PG 17. Happy to send you a scanned copy of the Hobday information it shows, which is not much.