I will add Harriet and Edward's dod to my list to see if I can find obits on them for you. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: Frances Nelson <mrsn@cwo.com> To: <CA-GOLDRUSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 10:11 PM Subject: [GOLDRUSH] Pat Banks, POLGLASE & MOYLE > Hi Pat, When you posted on the above names, I passed the information on to > a friend who is researching MOYLE. She tried to e-mail you, but the > address failed. I am including her letter to you and you can contact her > direct. Hope this is helpful. > > Fran Nelson > > BARBARA'S LETTER FOLLOWS > >Hi Pat, > >(I may have sent this information to you before, If so, please forgive > >the duplication. Maybe I'll get better organized in "2000".) > > > >I picked up your message on the GOLDRUSH list. > > > > I have a book on Cornish miners that lists a Thomas PIELGLASE/POLGLASE > >in/around Grass Valley and Nevada City around 1855. A Samuel POLGLASE > >and Richard POLGLASE in Michigan. " A Cornishman POLGLASE, foreman at > >the giant Idaho-Maryland mine, when he visited the Comstock to inspect > >the Ponderour machinery of the Consolidated Virginia." (This was near > >Virginia City Nevada.) Then there is a reference to a Sam POLGLASE, " > >whose mining career spanned from Upper Michigan to New Mexico". From > >your E-mail I would guess maybe they are all related in some way. They > >were all Cornish miners. > > > >A few months ago I was in a cemetery in Nevada City, California and > >happened across a gravestone of Harriett and Edward MOYLE. Harriett > >was born in 1841 and died in 1918 and Edward was born in 1845 and died > >in 1923. So I think this must be the same Edward MOYLE. I had no idea > >who he was, but took a picture anyway! My Mother was a MOYLE and I > >have information on some of the line back to a Stephen MOYLE about 1716, > >in Wendron Parish, Cornwall but nothing on an Edward MOYLE. You > >mentioned you had received some shipping information from his > >descendents. Can you tell me who they are? I would love to see if > >there is some connection to my line. I do have a Jane MOYLE who married > >a William GEORGE and I'm wondering if Edward and maybe John "George" > >POLGLASE were from that line. Hey - maybe in a round-about-way we're > >related!?! > > > >I live near Grass Valley and Nevada City, California so if I can check > >anything out for you on John POLGLASE let me know. > > > >Happy New Year! > > > >Regards, > >Barbara Selzer > >FRITZFARM@jps.net > > >