Dan, Thanks for the info but may I ask how you came about it? Cindy >From: "HAMRICK,DANIEL" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >Reply-To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Patrick/George >Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 10:07:55 -0500 > >The West Virginia Hamricks trace to Patrick Hamrick, of Manassas, VA, born >about 1689, and his wife Margaret Ingles. Most of them are descendants of >his grandson Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Nancy McMillian, and his brother >Joel who married a woman named Mary ________. Benjamin settled in what is >now Webster County; Joel in what is now Braxton County. >Patrick's origin is unproved. The leading theory is that Patrick himself >came from Ireland. But there are theories about Hamricks having been in >Ireland, England, Holland, Germany, France and/or Norway. > > >dhamrick@neo.rr.com >Dan Hamrick >402 23rd Street NW >Canton OH 44709 >Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 > > > > >---------- > >From: "Cynthia Brown" <pocotwo@hotmail.com> > >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Patrick/George > >Date: Sat, Jan 8, 2000, 8:48 PM > > > > >The Hamricks from W.Va. my dad always said they were from German decent > >which was told to him by passing down info from the ages. I wonder if >this > >is true? > >Cindy > > > > > >>From: Bill Davenport <davenport@brooksdata.net> > >>Reply-To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com > >>To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com > >>Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Patrick/George > >>Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:52:42 -0600 > >> > >>Good Morning: > >> > >>JR, I have most certainly received your comments as well as those others > >>who took the time to write. You’ll have to bear with me if I do not > >>respond as quickly as you might like. In addition to other aspects of > >>living, I’m researching several other names and Hamrick is not really > >>top priority. At the moment, I’m reflecting on life in the year 2000. > >>As an eighteen year old serving in the Regular United States Navy, my > >>shipmates and I discussed the possibility of living until the next > >>century, and what it might be like. Don’t know about the others but I > >>made it to 2000 and I’m proud to be here. > >> > >>Back to the comments. I appreciate them, even the references to > >>membership in the Flat Earth Society. Thank you all for the information > >>you’ve passed along. Everything helps. > >> > >>It would unrealistic to think that everything we come across is error > >>free. We don’t know if written records were recorded correctly. We > >>don’t know if persons reading and transcribing records have interpreted > >>them accurately. With very little information about the stones at the > >>Street Hamrick home place, I have no way of knowing whether they are > >>recent or have been in place many years, or who placed them there. I > >>did notice that the monument to Patrick Hamrick was erected in September > >>1999. It seems to echo exactly what you preach. Was it built by > >>supporting members of this list? ( only joking) > >> > >>Returning to the regurgitation of bad genealogy, if Patrick Hamrick was > >>the first, where are all the Patrick Hamricks? If Moses Richard did not > >>exist, why did Price Hamrick have sons named Moses and Richard? If > >>Price’s father was Jeremiah, why don’t we see a son named Jeremiah? Why > >>are there so many George Hamricks both laying down and walking around? > >>(These irritants, Patrick supporters, just won’t go away, will they?) > >> > >> >From available records there apparently was a ship named Snow Lowther > >>and it came to Philadelphia in 1731 with a load of Germans, among whom > >>was a man named Hans Jeurg Hamerich. He apparently married another > >>German named Nancy Cook. They likely had children. What happened to > >>those children? Did they just vanish? > >> > >>How did the folks in North Carolina know about Moses Richard and Hans > >>George? Were they just ignorant hillbillies who knew nothing? Did they > >>just pull names out of thin air so as to confuse subsequent > >>generations? Did they go so far as to erect phony tombstones? > >> > >>On the LDS site, upon entering the name Patrick Hamrick, one file says > >>he was the son of Hans George. Ironic, huh? > >> > >>After I sent my original message to the list, I received a couple of > >>messages from people who said they no longer send anything to the list > >>because they had been put down for whatever dissenting opinions they > >>expressed. That isn’t nice, Patrick descendants. Even if 95% of the > >>list supports the Patrick notion, that doesn’t make it correct. > >> > >>Anyway, folks, I don’t have all the answers and I don’t think you do, > >>either. Hopefully, we’ll learn more. Maybe something that will satisfy > >>everybody. > >> > >>Bill Davenport > >> > >> > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com