Hi William, Regarding the attached message I was wondering if you have a copy of the book mentioned. The only copies I know about are located on the east coast. I am in the northwest. The Library of Congress will provide a copy for about $ 300 plus. A little too steep since I do not know if my Bonner/Bonar family is even mentioned by the author. If you have seen the book I am curious about the information contained within. I have been told the book is only a record of the history of the Bonner (and the variations) name. I do not believe that someone would write a book and not include some historical facts about the families mentioned. I have been trying to locate any information on the following. My GGF Patrick Bonner (birth name was probably Bonar) was born in Donegal (10-1860). This information is from the 1890 Idaho census. He married my GGM in 1889 in Eva, Idaho (confirmed). His whereabouts from 1889 are known by the birth of his children until his reported death in 1906 in Nevada. His parents were possibly William and Catherine of Donegal and sister of Anne Bonar who married James McKelvey and was with James in Penn. in 1873 where her first daughter Hannah was possibly born. The dates of immigration are unknown. If this information matches anything you have please let me know. Thank you, Patrick Bonner ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Bonner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:29 Subject: [BONNER] BONNER Surname > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------F95D7437B77021070233AB38 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I hope that you will also consider the branch that spelled their name > BONAR. I was rather surprised about ten years ago when I was able to > track some of our family to an illiterate Civil War Veteran (and a > deserter, or at least an AWOL, to boot) James Bonar, who returned to his > place of enlistment in Illinois only to find that his mother (Emma or > Annie Hicks Bonar) and his step-father, half brother William Bonar had > moved west to Iowa. He followed, or at least went west too, marrying > Elizabeth "Lib" Kehler in Nebraska in September, 1872. Spelling was not > a big priority, as the marriage certificate has at least two spellings > of the names Bonar, Bonner, Kalor, and Kehler, as well as Lib's sister, > Charlott(e) Kehler Covalt. Then the Bonar family moved on west, > following the mining industry. In 1880, they were on Mosquito Mountain, > near Leadville, CO. By 1885, Lib and James had split, with Lib having > only Harvey, Joseph and Hattie. My grandfather, Lew Bonner took off for > the southwest US, working on railroads before homesteading in Oklahoma > in the Cheyenne-Arapaho run west of Kingfisher. > > We pretty well lost the trail of James Bonar, but he showed up in the > Military Home in Malibu Twp. Los Angeles, California, in the 1920 > census. I sent for his military records and found that he was the same > one I'd been searching for. He died in 1929 and is buried in the > National Cemetery > > I'll be glad to share some of the details with any of you if this seems > to fit in. Most of this line (at least back to the immigrant William > Bonar) is described quite well in Dorothy Elizabeth Rine Brown's 1960's > book on Boners, Bonars, Bohner, Bonners, etc. It is out of print, but I > can do searches occasionally. > > William J. Bonner > > --------------F95D7437B77021070233AB38 > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; > name="wjbonner.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for William Bonner > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="wjbonner.vcf" > > begin:vcard > n:Bonner;William J. > tel;fax:859-260-1935 > tel;home:859-260-1545 > x-mozilla-html:TRUE > adr:;;;;;; > version:2.1 > email;internet:[email protected] > fn:William J. Bonner > end:vcard > > --------------F95D7437B77021070233AB38-- > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >