Hi, All: Thank you Steve for your helpful message. I'm sorry to be so long in replying, but have been out of town. I did manage to do some Looney research at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Didn't find much new and nothing new on Robert (1). Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >Rather than duplicate what others will send, I would >suggest you pick up of copy of the book >"Most Distinguished Characters On The American Frontier" >by Madge Looney Crane and son Phillip Crane. http://www.robertlooney.com/ >It contains about everything that's been discovered and >documented as "fact" concerning Robert (1) Looney and >wife ELIZABETH. I do plan to buy this book, but don't believe I will receive it before I leave. My e-mail sent to their site was never answered (since the 16th). Wasn't sure I should just send a check off. How do we know that Robert came from Ballagilley on Man? Do we have any other Manx sites we know of to check out? I thought I might search for some of the sites mentioned in the William Cubban notes. I found Ballagilley on a Manx map, but haven't found the other sites yet. Has anyone visited any of the other sites? I have been to Kirk Maughold and plan to return there and well as going to Kirk Lonan. I also plan to go to the Manx Museum (again) and there is a genealogical collection in Peel. > (That's the first hit you'll probably >get notes about. The 2nd is likely to be about >Robert's parents. To date, no one has discovered any >documentation that gives their names. If you've found anything, >please let us know). The LDS site has John Looney and Elizabeth Llewellyn but no documentation. As I said before they have this John born in Augusta Co. VA *before* Jamestown was settled, so definitely not documented. They have Robert's wife as Elizabeth Stover (Barabar)--again no documentation. So who is Robert's real wife? Or do we know her last name? >My wife and I are also planning an IOM journey ... probably around 01 July to coinicide with the week-long Tynwald festival. I will be glad to share with you, and anyone else, whatever I might find--if it is only more pictures. Teresa McVeigh, married to Stephen W. Looney