Hi Tom: Caught your email to JOLLY-L@rootsweb.com. There has been various published genealogies over the years tying Joll(e)y's to the Jolliffe family line in England and Virginia/West Virginia. These genealogies are wrong. They were two separate family lines and never were related. The problem also is that in some of the Jolliffe wills and land deeds you will see both Jolliffe and Jolly used in the same document. In wills particularly, this says that the person signing the will did not write it. We make an incorrect assumption that most people in our colonial times were literate when they were not. People relied upon the few government and physicians etc. to write the documents. The name was spelled how it SOUNDED TO THEM. I've seen an a copy of a land grant in VA. made out to a John Jolly by an English colonial official (about 1668) that was actually listed in a will by John Jolliffe. The thing that ties the will and land grant together is the acre size which was 267 acres in both documents. There is a lady by the name of Mary Henke who is well versed in the name problem as she is related to both the Jolly and Jolliffe lines. Her email address is: mlhenke@teleport.com and I suggest you email her. Get copies of any actual documents you use to see if both spellings were used. Again, the Jolliffe line who finally settled in what is now West Virginia are Not Jollys'. Another problem that exists is that the surname, Jolly was also spelled Jolley interchangeably by members some times within a family. I'm related to a Jolley line. Hope this clarifies things some what. Yours Erv Jensen eajensen @earthlink.net Tom Rea wrote: > >Hi all > >I am searching for PETER JOLLEY who married ROSANNAH HARTLEY, she from > >Morgan/Hampshire Co. W.Va.,Va. They were married prior to 1823 but can find > >no marriage license for them. They were named in a friendly dispute over > >land with Rosanna's brothers and sisters. I know a good bit about her > >family but can find nothing as to who their children were, where they went > >etc. I have searched every where for them to no avail. PLEASE HELP ! Does > >anyone out there have a coonection to this family. Thanks for listening. > >Virginia > > Virginia, > I do not have a direct connection but I do have a promising family to search: > > 1 Peter Jollife > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1734, Belse, Alsace-Lorain, France > Death: 1786, Washington County, Pennsylvania > Father: Peter Jolly > Mother: Ann > > Spouse: Martha (Mrs. Jolly) > Birth: France > Death: Washington County, Pennsylvania > Marr: abt 1756, Of Chester County, Pennsylvania > > Children: Henry (1757-1842) > Seymore (~1759-) > William (~1761-) > Martha (~1763-) > Elizabeth (1765-1838) > Charles (~1767-1838) > James (~1769-1803) > > 1.1 Henry Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: 26 Dec 1757, Chester County, Pa. > Death: 29 Jul 1842, Jersey Twp., Licking County, Ohio > Burial: Peoria, Ill. > Burial: UNIV. CEM. > > 1.2 Seymore Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1759, Chester County, Pa. > > 1.3 William Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1761, Chester County, Pa. > > 1.4 Martha Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1763, Chester County, Pa. > > 1.5 Elizabeth Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: 1765, Chester County, Pa. > Death: 26 Sep 1838 > > 1.6 Charles Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1767, Chester County, Pa. > Death: Nov 1838 > > 1.7a James Jolly* > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: abt 1769, Chester County, Pennsylvania > Death: 27 Jan 1803, Washington County, Pennsylvania > > Spouse: Jane Chambers > Birth: abt 1771, Pennsylvania > Death: 16 Jan 1807, Nottingham Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania > Father: James Chambers (Am. Rev.-Pennsylvania) (1743-1815) > Mother: Catherine Hamilton (~1746-1811) > Marr: abt 1790 > > Children: [Sarah] Ruth (1792-1873) > James S. (-1825) > William > Margaret > Jane > Ann > Elizabeth (1792-) > Esther > > Other spouses: Agnes Buchanan > > 1.7a.1 [Sarah] Ruth Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: 1 Jan 1792, Morris Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania > Death: 7 Apr 1873, Morris Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania > > Spouse: Henry Van Kirk Jr. (War Of 1812-Pennsylvania) "Hank" > Birth: 12 May 1788, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey > Death: 12 May 1839, Morris Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania > Father: Henry Van Kirk Sr. (Am. Rev.-New Jersey) (1740-1798) > Mother: Sarah Van Kirk (2nd Wife) (1749->1821) > Marr: abt 1809, Morris Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania > > Children: Mary Ellen (1810-1879) > Dryden (1815-1900) > Sarah Ann (1816-1832) > Jane (1817-) > Charles (1820-1825) > Ruth (1824-) > Susannah (1826-1905) > Milton (1829-) > Phoebe (1831-1836) > Keturah (1832-1868) > > 1.7a.2 James S. Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Death: 30 May 1825, Washington County, Pennsylvania > > 1.7a.3 William Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > > 1.7a.4 Margaret Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > > 1.7a.5 Jane Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > > 1.7a.6 Ann Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > > 1.7a.7 Elizabeth Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > Birth: 1792 > > 1.7a.8 Esther Jolly > --------------------------------------------- > > 1.7b James Jolly* (See above) > --------------------------------------------- > > Spouse: Agnes Buchanan > > Other spouses: Jane Chambers > > I descend from the James Jolly family above so I would be very > interested in anything at all you find about these families. I have > not seen many state side Jolly researchers for some reason. I have > had little luck so far. > > Thomas Rea > Oakland California > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/