Thanks Joy - Yes the Chicken family very definitely existed and were early
in SC. The family was also in Northumberland and Durham England in the 1400s
or 1500s.

One should be careful of the LDS data. I know there are errors in the data
for my own Taylor family.

The Catherine Chicken you mention who married Benjamin Simons was the
daughter of George Chicken Jr and his second wife Lydia Child. One has to be
careful of information on the name Catherine Chicken, for there were at
least 4 of whom I am aware. One, besides the one who married Ben Simons, was
my ancestor, the daughter of William Chicken, a brother to George Jr.
Another was the aunt of the two Catherines so far mentioned, who married
Noah Serre Jr and after his death Dr. David Caw. There was at least one
other in the Chicken line. All apparently named for the wife of Col. George
Chicken, the widow of Thomas Bellamy, who married George Sr before 1710. The
given name  has been brought down through my family lines even to
the preent day.

I have not followed the Simmons/Simons that closely - John J Simons III
<> would be the one to contact on them. I suspect the name
Lydia enters because of the mother of Catherine Chicken Simmons. 

I also have Alston ancestors, but in NC not SC.

Thanks again for your message, Ed T of PGH
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>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: CHICKEN-SNOW families
>Date: Mon, May 29, 2000, 4:12 PM
>


>Hi,
>I have a Catherine Chicken, parents unknown, who m. Benjamin Simmons born 
>September 10, 1737 Charleston County, SC d. September 7, 1789 Charleston 
>County, SC.  It's listed at LDS, I believe.  I have Simmons and I have the 
>copied page from the book but it seem I have not entered it in the computer.
>I suppose this Catherine was bc 1740.
>Another wife was Elizabeth Alston, also bc 1740. They had a child Sarah Lydia 
>Simmons b 1782 that m. Jonathan Lucas, II of the Lucas rice plantation.
>Hope I am correct with the dates.  Just wanted you to know the Chicken's did 
>exist.
>
>Joy
>Charleston
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