On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:24:40 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) wrote: >On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:01:15 -0500, Brian <drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> >wrote: > >>On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:52:45 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh >>Sullivan) wrote: > >>>One thing you quickly notice is that a person might never move yet he >>>could live in as many as 4 counties because the county lines changed. >>>It would appear to the casual observer that he had moved 4 times. >>> >>>Hugh >> >>That is the case with an ancestor of my wife. He emigrated to MD from >>an unknown location and where he lived has been in 3 or 4 different >>counties. His descendants moved away, many to the south. My wife was >>born in GA and moved to MD when we married. She now lives about 30 >>miles from where her ancestor did. > >A cupla thots... > >If he moved South he might not have remained Catholic. In rural areas >of the South there may only be 1 Catholic Church in a county. But the >Primitive Baptist Churches are "one axle greasin'" apart. That's about >10 miles. The four male generations before me were all Primitive >Baptists in AL and I have actually attended services at each of the >churches they did. > >Also a number of immigrants first went to Jamaice or other islands >before continuing the journey to the mainland. > >I have a census listing of Sullivans in MD for 1800 and 1810 if that >would halp. It does not include household members because I do not >research MD. I do have a few MD Sullivans, variously spelled, since that's where my quest began. I'll be glad to see if I've got anything useful, Brian. ] >You can easily obtain the same info through Heritage Quest if you have >a library card. Remember to try various spellings including Sullivant. >HQ is particular about spelling. I haven't checked, but I may have both Sullivant and Sul[l]ivane, maybe even some real Sullivans. :-). -- Don donsgenes@charter.net

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:36:19 -0800, Don Kirkman <donsgenes@charter.net> wrote: >I do have a few MD Sullivans, variously spelled, since that's where my >quest began. I'll be glad to see if I've got anything useful, Brian. >] >>You can easily obtain the same info through Heritage Quest if you have >>a library card. Remember to try various spellings including Sullivant. >>HQ is particular about spelling. > >I haven't checked, but I may have both Sullivant and Sul[l]ivane, >maybe even some real Sullivans. :-). Thanks but while I live in MD, I grew up in CT and I think the Sullivans were from NY.