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			My Osborne Family
	Serendipity.  Isn't it a nice word?  I was exchanging information about Jefferson County, MS with a fellow King researcher and, in the process, discovered the name of my G-G-Grandfather Osborne quite by accident.  And, coming right behind this happy discovery, was a wonderful tidal wave of information on many other lines.  All of this thanks entirely to the observation and kindness of fellow researcher, Willie King.      My G-Grandmother, Ella Osborne Dawkins, I have found, was the daughter of William M. and Mary Jane Baldridge Osborne.  Mary Jane Baldridge's family is detailed on the Baldridge/Stampley Page.  Several books have been written on this family by Dr. Chester Kennedy, who traced the Baldridges back a very long way.  From the Baldridges, came the Stampleys, from the Stampleys, the Curtis' and Courtneys.......all with rich and well-recorded histories!  A family researcher's dream come true.      I haven't had as much luck with the Osbornes.  Samuel is one of the names in my Jefferson County, MS Osborne family and there is a Samuel who arrived very early in the Mississippi Territory's history, and left many records in the Natchez Court Records, from as early as 1769, when the land was still in the hands of Spain.  As positive as I am that this Samuel is an ancestor of my William, I haven't been able to make the connection yet.  But I still have a lot of census records to go through and, also, wherever I find the Osbornes in Mississippi, there are Hamiltons close at hand and through this connection, I may be able to eventually track them down.
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