John wrote: __________________ Earl - I was told once, quite bluntly, that Kagley came from Kegley, not Cagle, and was in fact an Irish name. And fairly prominent in the Shendandoah Valley of the Old Dominion. john _____________________ John & List, This sounds logical to me and I just wonder if some Cagle's, could be Irish. The addition of the y, being the only difference in the surnames. Could this just be a coincidence, and the names are just similar? Oh well, just some food for thought, Earl