Dear Robert: Your line does not sound exactly like mine, but some really interesting naming paterns!! My Malacki with brothers John and George were baptized in the Swedish Lutheran Church in Pens Neck, Salem County, NJ in 1740.  Their parents were not named ("sureties were parents themsevels for lack of others"). Malacki had several sons one of them Jesse. Jesse had several sons, one of them was named Edward Sylvester Kelley. Jesse's older brothers were John (who died young) and James and another whose name I forget at this time. Malacki, when he died left an estate, and allthough it wasn't specific, a number of people owed him money, but as far as I could figure our he was a merchant of some kind. In his estate belongs was a number of shoe instruments. So had been thinking he made shoes for people! I never could get back across the sea with my Malacki has have not found his parents as of yet! But thought I would share with you!! Gary Kelley (or Kelly, or Killy, or Kiley)!!! -----Original Message----- From: Bob Kelly <kwshoes@spamcop.net> To: kelley@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 2:40 pm Subject: [KELLEY] Malachi Kelly, Galway 1820s MOST WANTED I¹ve been looking for years for any connection to Malachi Kelly, b. round 1800 in Co. Mayo later moved to Galway, maybe Galway City. Married o Mary Knight. His son John, my g-g-grandfather, b. 1825, emigrated to ilford, MA in the late 1840s, perhaps with siblings, e.g., Patrick. John as a bootmaker. He married Anne Honora Melia and they had nine children. is son, James Sylvester Kelly, my g-grandfather, was born in Milford and tarted the Kelly Shoe Manufacturing Company there. We have a great deal of reliable information on the family from John orward but haven¹t ever made a connection back to Malachi and Mary Knight. But we keep trying. Robert Emmet Kelly, Jr. -- isit us at our Key West Blog: ttp://therealkeywest.blogspot.com/ Visit the Bahama Village Blog: ttp://bvkw.blogspot.com Visit the BCCLT Blog: ttp://bcclt.blogspot.com ************************************* ELLEY/KELLY/O'KELLY Surname DNA Study ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kellydnaproject/index.htm ------------------------------- o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KELLEY-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message