I am not sure about the connection to the Brooks line, but it may come though my (John?) Phillip Albert family. Do you have any connection to the Albert family? Oddly, there was a Guy Brooks who lived in the Union/Henderson Co. area but I can make no connection to him. Maybe my Guy Brooks Chapman was simply named after him? Can't say. On the Casey family, much of what I know came from George M. Williams. Here is some of what he told me: _________________________________________________________________ "I have a Catherine Casey, b 1765 who married a John Wagoner; her parents were Peter Casey, Sr b. abt 1715, Ireland, d 1787 Hardy Co, VA , he married Mary Margaret Dupuy Williams Feb 15 1759; she was born abt 1722 and died bef 1787. Catherine has sisters and half-sisters and half- brothers that went to various places in KY. I haven't followed the Casey's very much but rather the Williams line since Mary Margaret Dupuy Williams was my gggggrandmother. If this makes any connection or clue for you please indicate. Thanks and Good Luck, George M. Williams" "I have a large amount of details of her children by her first husband Vincent Williams who died in 1756 - Indians. I have not been able to find anything yet about her ancestors but have several clues...." "The write up on the Casey family I found in the Hampshire Co. Library. The Strother name in your direct line, do you have any idea where it came from? Some of us think that it was a family name and the family name of the first wife of Daniel McNeill, Sr. , a neighbor of the Casey's in Hardy Co. Incidentally George Washington visited Old Fields, Hardy Co. twice during his career, while on a surveying trip he visited the Casey cabin, in 1748?. A house which incorporates the Casey log house is being lived in today at Old Fields, WVA." _________________________________________________________________ He can be reached at "George M. Williams" <gmwill@hereintown.net> My initial connection to the Casey family was made through Rick Waggoner's excellent web page on the Waggoner family, which is located at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/g/Rick--Waggener/index.html Here is some of what Rick Waggener shows on Peter Casey: ___________________________________________________________________________ 61. NANCY5 WAGGENER (ANDREW4, JOHN3, HERBERT2, JOHN1) was born October 08, 1763 in Spotslvania Co., Virginia, and died July 12, 1847 in Union Co., Kentucky. She married PETER CASEY in Kentucky. Children of NANCY WAGGENER and PETER CASEY are: i. SAMUEL6 CASEY, b. 1787, Mercer, Kentucky; d. December 22, 1859, Union Co., Kentucky; m. ELEANOR M. FINNIE, 1814. 116. ii. NICHOLAS CASEY, b. March 03, 1790, Harrodsburg, Kentucky; d. February 24, 1863, Union Co., Kentucky. iii. JOHN CASEY, b. May 21, 1800, Mercer, Kentucky; d. December 25, 1867, Union Co., Kentucky; m. MARY WILLIS LEWIS. iv. PETER CASEY, b. Abt. 1795; d. Unknown; m. ELIZABETH FINNIE. ___________________________________________________________________________ Let me stress that this is Rick's work, not mine. Information on Moorman and Venable can be found at this outstanding web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~qlstarr/ There are many people interested in these lines. Contact Linda Sparks Starr and she will put you on the mailing list for information which is periodically released about these lines. There is currently a real outpouring of information on the early Moorman lines in Virginia. Several branches of this family moved to Kentucky. You can find somewhat accurate information on my line at: http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/jcollins/11249 I don't know how this got on the web, but much of it appears to be my work. Mike Chapman At 03:40 PM 3/31/1999 EST, you wrote: >Hi, Mike..... > >We must be related about 17 different ways! Just kidding....but, it looks >like three or four ways at least.....noticed the Brooks name in your great >grandfather's name....do you have that line as well? I also have Brooks in VA >and KY..... > >Do you know anything about the Peter Casey line? His children? Was he a >brother or son of Abner Casey, who landed in Baltimore with the two or three >brothers in the 1720s? Interestingly enough, I also have the Deupree surname, >originally DuPre'. All of these common names are amazing! Oh, yes, I also >have Colemans.......did I say 17? Maybe more..... > >We definitely connect at Charles Moorman and Mary Venable......how about those >families? I have some information on them, probably not as much as you....... > >Are you in the phone book? All of these, and more, questions are running >through my mind...... > >Back to the Caseys......do you know of any Alexanders in the Peter Casey line? > >Sally > >