I have been impressed with the volume of great information that has been committed to the List's archives. I hope that I may find time to read it all and occasionally contribute. In case you have Teskeys amongst your ancestors, may I commend the Teskey website, www.teskey.org I hope many of you may find this useful. Ken McDonald (my Mother was a Teskey, and also descended from Legear, Stark and Ruttle) 2 Greenfields, Stansted, Essex, CM24 8AH, England [email protected]

Ken McDonald wrote: > > I have been impressed with the volume of great information that has been > committed to the List's archives. I hope that I may find time to read it all > and occasionally contribute. > In case you have Teskeys amongst your ancestors, may I commend the Teskey > website, www.teskey.org > I hope many of you may find this useful. > Ken McDonald (my Mother was a Teskey, and also descended from Legear, Stark > and Ruttle) > 2 Greenfields, Stansted, Essex, CM24 8AH, England > [email protected] > > ==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== > List Administrator: > Susan Laursen Willig > [email protected] Dear Ken; I've seen several of your letters to the net lists and its about time I answer. I've been working on my Mothers family the "Kerfoot"'s. Thomas Kerfoot born Ireland ca 1800 emigrated to Canada 1819 m. Ann Tomlinson had two children and both m. Teskey's. William Henry Kerfoot m. Margaret Teskey. and Elizabeth Kerfoot m. Thomas Teskey. I'm particly short on dates of this family and believe I don't have all the descendents in full. However I can send you what I have but we have a problem. I have a new computer but my info is all on the old one yet. So the only way I can send you the info is to print it out and send it Snail Mail. If you are interested in what I got send me your address and I'll get it away this week. Another problem I got and so far and have no solution. There is a bit of family lore in our family. It goes like this "The Kerfoot's came out of Germany spent three generations in Ireland than Emigrated to Canada in 1819". Now we know the 1819 date for sure but three generations is kind of an ambigous figure. But it could well fit into the Palatine migrations. Now I know we shouldn't have to put too much credit in family lore but I believe its true no mater how much my Grandmother tried to po po such a thing. An older brother of my Mothers told me in confedence that his father "George Kerfoot" b. 1842 told him it was true no mater how much his Mother told it was not. I belong to several Roots-Web lists looking for clues but so far nothing has came up. I've checked all the reels I could lay my hands on at LDS library on Palatines so far have never found the Kerfoot name in it yet. I'm beginning to wonder if they could of been among the few who had no surname when they came out to London and maybe a custom officer gave him his name. We have some Raynards in our family and they believe they got their surname as a concotion of Reinland when they came out. In the early 1700's people didn't set much store in their surname and new names were picted up quit easily. As the Kerfoot's came from Coolcullen in Kilkenny right on the border of Carlow. And about 15 miles east in Carlow there is a place called Palatine which had a Palatine population for a time but just disappeared. Maybe the Kerfoot's were part of that settlement than when it broke up just moved west to Coolcullen. This is all speculation but could be true. Any idea how I can find the facts. In some of the early records we find Kerfoot spelled in the German way "Kerfut". Suggesting to me that it might have a German origin. Bye for now please keep in touch. Hugh