Thank you for your note. I have never met a Manning relative in this country. My father came from Ireland in 1928 and had two sons, myself and my brother. My brother and I have six children between us all of whom still use the name Manning. My father had no brothers who had children and, in fact, my paternal grandfather used the name Manney/Manny more than Manning. I can't even find any evidence he ever used the name Manning, although that is the only surname his two sons used. Confusing I know but the Irish are very casual about spellings compared to us. In the end, then, I am afraid your Manning connection may not be of much help to me. Thank you just the same. -----Original Message----- From: JLedit@aol.com <JLedit@aol.com> To: FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com <FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 30, 1998 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] Gurry/Manning(Manney) >Are you related to the Mannings of Peoria, Illinois? The family was close to >my McCarthy group of Peoria. There is a family story that one of my ancestors >was supposed to marry a Manning, but met someone on the boat to New Orleans, >and married him instead. I may have some census information, and some >references to the Mannings in our records. Let me know if you are interested. > >Good luck. > >Jaonne > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >Fianna-L@rootsweb.com >favorite sites: >Try: http://cust2.iamerica.net/pscobb/index.htm >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award winner*** Thanks to Chirho >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ >Please turn off your Stationery, Backrounds & HTML! >Messages to list in plain text only! > > > > >